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Example sentences for: contempt

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Writing in Newsweek , George Will commented last week that the book "radiates contempt for the country."
Yet, beneath these acknowledgments there runs an undercurrent of distaste, disdain, even contempt.
In "", Chatterbox writes, "the hallmarks of Lapham's style are a magnificent contempt for mankind's folly and an apparent conviction that the United States is reenacting the last days of Rome."
In another 20 years, no doubt, '70s fashion will be in for its share of cinematic contempt (once the square toes are truly gone) just as the '50s finally achieve true antiquity.
(Not half so much contempt could be squeezed from "record industry squirrels."