Words similar to contempt

Example sentences for: contempt

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As they had suffered slights of either incomprehension or contempt for their religious customs before, they simply could not believe it was not deliberate, and mutiny broke out at Meerut, 40 km (25 miles) north of Delhi.
If Krugman has his way, the Keyneses of the future will be rejected as being outside the pale of legitimate economics, beneath contempt.
It is no fault of the editors that familiarity breeds contempt: most of the references in this edition occurred within the living memory of many of its contemporaries, which leads one to argue with some of the material.
Flick's name is clearly an hommage to Sammy Glick, the Hollywood hustler of Budd Schulberg's classic portrait of '30s ambition, What Makes Sammy Run ? Glick was viewed through the eyes of Al Manheim, a jaded lefty alcoholic who regarded this new species of capitalist human with contempt but also with awe: Sammy was a force of nature.
The unmodified noun for an ethnic group or nationality does imply a certain hostility or contempt or, especially on the lips of a member of that group, a nuance of defiance, as in Kazin's case.