Words similar to contempt

Example sentences for: contempt

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

I began hoping to do something with either the war or the president's contempt citation, and eager to use "I give the headline; you give the lead," or "I give the answer; you give the question," or "I give the caption; you describe the photo," three nice forms we've not used lately.
"In most of the counties surrounding Schuylkill County, the penalties given for indirect criminal contempt are much stiffer than those in Schuylkill County," Casey said. "
Novelists Barbara Kingsolver and Kurt Andersen, the New York Times Arts and Ideas page, a private salon of left-leaning intellectuals, the entire city of Manhattan--all are treated with the same withering contempt.
If Krugman has his way, the Keyneses of the future will be rejected as being outside the pale of legitimate economics, beneath contempt.
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.