Sentence examples for mild contempt from inspiring English sources

Mild contempt and disdain, yes.

I had always viewed ghostwriting with mild contempt.

Like any shop you reluctantly use regularly, it induces mild contempt and complete self-loathing.

Bloom's Romeo is a philosophical "bad boy," with a mild contempt for squares.

And the British "you lot" has rough edges — it can suggest joshing affection or mild contempt, but coming from an American it's a tad pretentious, eh what?

But the countess married the Graf von Gallenberg in 1803, and in later years Beethoven seems to have remembered her only with mild contempt.

The resulting software could potentially distinguish, say, nose wrinkles of mild contempt from nose wrinkles of cute affection, although whether it can spot good acting is another matter entirely.

But there there's also a certain species of urbane Republican who live in liberal bastions and, feeling terribly oppressed by the mild contempt they face at cocktail parties, imagine a profound sympathy with the simple folk of the heartland.