Example sentences for: contempt

How can you use “contempt” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 222), whereas Hartley, discussing the use of cunt comments: “Probably this latter expression unconsciously carries with it the contempt for femininity that most prisoners & soldiers and others feel when forcibly shut off from the other sex.

  • Schnittke is a witty composer, and at certain moments you have the feeling that he is drunkenly singing sardonic songs of woe and contempt.

  • But it was a suppressed smirk that said, "I'm trying to hide my contempt, but I can't hide it completely."

  • In this, he resembles no one so much as Margaret Thatcher, whose attitude toward the inessential was one of brusque, snarling contempt.

  • And there have been hundreds more explaining why Dole, whose contempt for people who believe in that kind of magic is a matter of public record, nonetheless chose to accept their program--and chose one of the most prominent believers as his running mate.


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