Sentence examples for naked contempt from inspiring English sources

Rum never suffered the naked contempt that bartenders heaped on, say, vodka.

"I doubt," says Mama Prossy, looking me over with quite naked contempt.

David MacQuigg, the Medical Corps doctor assigned to the team, also filed a report, in which he expressed naked contempt for the men he had experimented on.

To them, McCarthy's satirical tone seemed perilously close to naked contempt – as though having failed to assimilate she was now determined to retaliate.

Three of the panellists were also united in condemning Richard Dawkins for his suggestion that it was time to confront believers with a display of "naked contempt".

"But I was unprepared for the naked contempt, the unapologetically hateful public shaming and vilification I received in my own country.

It was self-published, it was by a young unknown – Jarett Kobek – and its main selling point was naked, gleeful contempt for the devices and technology platforms that are an essential part of all our daily lives.

Though told from the British point of view, it shows that viewpoint change from dismissive contempt and naked fear to respect and even admiration.

The Sioux sometimes showed their contempt for their enemies by appearing naked or nearly so, displaying their genitals and buttocks.

The whiff of late-stage terminal crisis settles over him, as it does whenever muted public contempt mutates into raucous public derision, and he stands before us naked and exposed.

Think of the Old Masters: the Dutch ones are of burghers, the French ones of naked women and the English ones of gentlemen surveying their rolling acres with an expression mixing complacency and contempt.