"suffer contempt" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to experience or endure the feeling of being looked down upon or disrespected by others. You can use this phrase in various contexts, such as: - The political leader was known to suffer contempt from his critics due to his controversial policies. - Despite their hard work and dedication, the marginalized community continued to suffer contempt from mainstream society. - I refuse to let others' opinions make me suffer contempt for my passions and choices in life. Example: She was used to being the black sheep of the family and often had to suffer contempt from her conservative relatives.
He was making a meagre living selling trinkets in the souk, where he suffered contempt and threats from Kurds.
Should anyone break this pact – there have been two or three exceptions – they'll suffer the contempt and scorn of their peers.
"Have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world".
Lord knows it was difficult enough to be a woman in Victorian England, but to be a fallen woman – as MOTVR points out, glumly – was to suffer the contempt of a society so un-down with the concept of empowerment that its response to a prostitute giving evidence at a high court trial couldn't have been less enthusiastic had it just been propositioned by a talking moustache.
Expectations, Big and Small As Tabitha plunged into "Great Expectations," a dictionary beside her in her shelter bunk bed, she found another framework for her feelings: the story of the poor boy who suffers the contempt of the wealthy and beautiful, and for the first time sees himself as "a stupid, clumsy, laboring boy".
At a Mass in Rome with fellow Jesuits on Wednesday, Pope Francis voiced concern for Dall'Oglio's fate, and linked him to other Jesuits who have suffered "insults, contempt and poverty" for their mission.
"People living in extreme poverty suffer daily from the contempt, indifference and rejection of their fellow human beings.
After she in turn died in 1514, her son wrote "This my pious Mother ... often had the plague and many other severe and strange illnesses, and she suffered great poverty, scorn, contempt, mocking words, terrors, and great adversities.
Rum never suffered the naked contempt that bartenders heaped on, say, vodka.
Perhaps Mason fears that her exquisite miniatures -- having so recently suffered such lofty contempt -- won't be properly appreciated unless their subtleties are clearly labeled.
Make the mistake of calling her that to her face, and you will likely suffer the full force of Mitchell's contempt – as biographer Michelle Mercer discovered while writing her 2009 book Will You Take Me As I Am.
