"contempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- His tone indicated contempt and irate hostility.
- In the past, it may also have indicated contempt, but that is no longer common.
- His expression indicated contempt for any one afflicted with a conscience.
- Saartjie, pronounced "Sahr-kee", is the diminutive form of her name; in Afrikaans the use of the diminutive form commonly indicates familiarity, endearment or contempt.
- Each time an Army back ran for the first down, the choices indicating either contempt for the Navy defense or extreme confidence.
- Even if she was only in temporary lodgings, the woman would seem to be of the lower class for which his friend had indicated such contempt that rainy evening.
- She characterises such usage as indicating an underlying psychophobia and contempt.
- His countenance bore as little the marks of self-denial, as his habit indicated contempt of worldly splendour.
- A popular term that the swing subculture used to define itself was Lottern, roughly translated as something between "laziness" and "sleaziness", indicating contempt for the pressure to do "useful work" and the repressive sexual mores of the time.
- It is permitted that the person be armed," Krolli lifted his chin to indicate contempt, "in order to show that the other party has no bad intention towards the person.
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