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Example sentences for: contempt

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The contempt measure is expected to pass but, appropriately for this theatrical day, it is a theatrical gesture: The full House is highly unlikely to approve such an inflammatory action.
(Watch carefully and you can actually see him exuding contempt, like the oily haze that rises off airplane engines on a hot day.)
His defense (for which K had contempt at the time) was that he intended to mislead but was technically telling the truth.
And they eventually seem to concur in their wistful conclusion that if Celebration is a bit of a corporate harlot, it yet has a heart of gold, or at least of honest brass, and does not deserve the easy contempt of its oh-so-sophisticated detractors.
Meanwhile, the Journal reports, Jones lawyers are preparing a motion to have Clinton held in contempt of court for his misleading testimony about Monica Lewinsky.