"contempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The opponent might then display his bravery and contempt by brushing the cheek of the challenger lightly as he did so.
- Shortly after shooting them, Conroy displayed utter contempt for his two victims, the court heard.
- While training for a career as an officer in the late 1920s, he displayed fashionable contempt for the Weimar Republic.
- Prison terms have been given to those who "deride or damage" the reputation of the state and "display contempt" for religion.
- Such demagoguery displays dangerous contempt for the vital role of the press in a democracy.
- Throughout the series, he displays sardonic contempt for authority figures.
- Displaying frank contempt for safety regulations, the B-men began to smoke profusely.
- To relentlessly promote music of this nature is to display contempt for the public and inevitably to alienate them.
- The suit accused him of displaying "total contempt for the law" and the public.
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