Sentence examples for dose of contempt from inspiring English sources

It wasn't as bad as "faggot," but it carried a dose of contempt as strong or stronger than most of the other derisive epithets for those whom, back then, only gay people called gay.

I'm afraid, I'm not an entirely humble person, but I do have the typical European extra dose of self-contempt.

You may try to dismiss what they are saying (which is basically that you, bourgeois cultural prestige-monger that you are, should congratulate yourself for having purchased a dose of Mr. Haneke's contempt), but their unsettling effects are not so easy to shake.

Andersen was not the quickest student in the class and was given generous doses of Meisling's contempt.

The definition of contempt.

There was a good deal of contempt for the Iranians.

Such moments verge on the "snobbery of contempt".

For that, he has been convicted of contempt.

He was convicted of contempt but appealed and won.

"It had become their cackling chuckle of contempt".

Mr. Seselj has been convicted twice of contempt of court, and a third contempt trial is under way.