Sentence examples for expressing contempt from inspiring English sources

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Everybody's a control freak, everybody yells at everybody else and they all behave contemptibly while expressing contempt for people and culture not Romany.

There is nothing conservative about expressing contempt for the Constitution by denying judicial procedure to prisoners who happen not to be Americans.

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Slanderous anti-Metallica Web sites predate the Napster conflict, expressing contempt for the group's creative choices and forcing the band into a defensive position.

James Taranto wrote that the applause was "less sanguinary than defiant"—they were expressing contempt for "the liberal elite" that opposes the death penalty.

Nippon Professional Baseball has received hundreds of phone calls and thousands of e-mails since the league's disclosure, many of them expressing contempt for Kato.

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"Steve expresses contempt for everyone — unless he's controlling them".

There are some who have recently expressed contempt for Robert McNamara.

Increasingly, we express contempt for the idea that decisions should be based on verifiable data.

"Democrat Party" is a slur, or intended to be — a handy way to express contempt.

The NSW supreme court heard on Tuesday that Hancock had expressed contempt toward her.

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