Sentence examples for feel contempt from inspiring English sources

Sometimes you feel contempt or disgust.

They've been through tragedy, or seen it, and they feel contempt for their trivial jobs.

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them".

The problem is that now there are lots of people who feel free to feel contempt".

After the MPs' expenses scandal, people feel contempt for politicians they think will do anything to gain and keep power.

Winnie is a forceful creation, with her burning resentment against those who feel contempt for the way the rest of us live.

Justin knows Orrin has "beaten temptation, but...I felt contempt.

"I felt contempt for myself," he wrote later.

Mr Houellebecq told the judges that he had never despised Muslims but felt contempt for Islam.

In the old days, those in foreign intelligence considered themselves an elite and felt "contempt for what they saw as the idiots who ran internal security," says a senior western diplomat.

When he refuses to flatter the Roman citizens, for whom he feels contempt, or to show them his wounds to win their vote, they turn on him and banish him.