Sentence examples for degree of contempt from inspiring English sources

But even within games, the company has made clear that it holds the market with a fair degree of contempt.

As a revolutionary who overthrew a monarchy, Colonel Qaddafi has long regarded the Saudi royal family with a degree of contempt.

This is the anodyne language of establishment think tanks like the Council on Foreign Relations — the kind of places that foreign-policy hawks have always held in a certain degree of contempt.

One goal of education is to teach people to want the rewards life has to offer, but another goal is to teach them a modest degree of contempt for those rewards, too.

"I cannot ignore the extent and degree of contempt of court on his part; the appropriate term by reasons of noncompliance with the orders is nine weeks," said Judge Dunne, who deemed Mr. Quinn "evasive and uncooperative" when giving evidence.

They will hear how just 7% of new claims are now offered long-term financial support and how claimants are treated carelessly or with a degree of contempt more suitable to the hate-crime stories mentioned above.

And, to a degree, that level of contempt from the audience was warranted.

In her mid-forties and a widow twice over, Marina Kirilovna treated men only with varying degrees of contempt.

Although slaves were usually outsiders and often despised, there nevertheless were different kinds of outsiders and different degrees of contempt.

With the publication of "Letters to Sartre," it was clear that, privately, he and Beauvoir held most of the people in their lives in varying degrees of contempt.

Adapting himself to fiction with much of the same garrulous intensity he brings to plays and monologues, Mr. Bogosian sets in motion a suburban nightmare populated by one-note, clueless characters who are presented here with various degrees of contempt.