Sentence examples for to contempt from inspiring English sources
noun
The state or act of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn, disdain.
For some, distrust has turned to contempt.
Today, they treat it with something close to contempt.
But now that condescension has turned to contempt".
Anderson, also a former district judge, entered a plea of no contest to contempt of court.
The almost religious fear that he inspired gave way to contempt.
Locked into their modern-day orthodoxies, German politicians look at Greece with something akin to contempt.
The Economist yields to nobody when it comes to contempt for Mr Castro.
Defying him will be equivalent to contempt of court, and thus subject to criminal penalties.
"She can turn from adoration to contempt on the spot, and that's essential.
One invokes feelings of superiority close to contempt, the other inferiority and envy.
Mr. Gilani's refusal to do so led to contempt charges and his dismissal.
