Sentence examples for high contempt from inspiring English sources

But it is also found that a gargantuan 75percentt of young voters held high contempt for congressional Republicans.

This is what Stalin said with wisdom when he had encountered the counter-revolutionaries. Lu Xun once said "to show the highest contempt is not to respond".

What the pair found is that these faces registered far higher "contempt" than the normies.

When he jeers at the idealists with their "high-minded contempt for everyday habits", or at the "high-minded vacuities" and "high-minded fatalism" of Matthew Arnold, or the "high-minded liberal platitudes" of Salman Rushdie, he sounds more like a rowdy kid than a serious subversive.

To have done so with such high-handed contempt is an affront to parliament and a symptom of unchecked arrogance that leads inevitably to bad government.

Instead, she and her lieutenants seemed to treat the minority with the same high-handed contempt they felt President Bush bestowed on them.

It's Laetitia Boothe-Braine, the ghastly embodiment of urban gentrification in 1988's High Hopes – all contempt and crisp vowels ("Chop chop!").

By the 1980s, Kael's notion that pop could be subversive was beginning to look a little tattered; the new American ritual was not respect for high culture but contempt for it.

With James unable to declare Coke incompetent, some of what Humphry William Woolrych describes as "colorable excuses" were produced to justify Coke's dismissal; he was accused of concealing £12,000, uttering "high words of contempt" as a judge, and declaring himself Chief Justice of England.

The ruling - which sees MGN Ltd paying costs of £54,000 to the attorney general in addition to its own of £75,000 - is the joint second highest for a contempt action.

Technically, the three women are prosecuted for hooliganism; a more appropriate definition of their offense would be contempt of high authority.