Sentence examples for felt contempt from inspiring English sources

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.

The first generation of native-born military leaders — Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon, Ezer Weizman — felt contempt for the European-born political leaders like Eshkol, a gap of generation and culture that also pushed Israel to war.

(He was also partly motivated, like many rebels, by seething class resentment: he says that as the son of a low-level civil servant, he felt "contempt" for middle-class civil rights leaders).

Sometimes you feel contempt or disgust.

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

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.

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