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Example sentences for: contempt

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But for Kazan to take Miller's stance before HUAC in 1952 would almost certainly have meant a contempt citation and time in jail.
In one speech, Clinton charged Bush with "coddling aging rulers with undisguised contempt for democracy, for human rights."
Exhibiting Contempt
Miss Norman said the remark, which she insists she never made, held her up to ridicule, mockery, and contempt, and conformed to a "degrading racist stereotype of a person of African-American heritage."
Today, Mr. Chairman, you are demeaning perhaps the most serious power we have--the power of contempt," Waxman announces to the committee.