Sentence examples for flick of contempt from inspiring English sources

They have become the default mode of western diplomacy, the acceptable face of aggression, a casual flick of contempt by the rich against the poor.

The definition of contempt.

Our language is a carrier of contempt.

Matsumoto, D. Scalar ratings of contempt expressions.

Each full of contempt for the other.

His customer was an object of contempt.

Familiarity breeds the opposite 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.