"contempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Ditto my salad-tossing technique, which arouses undisguised contempt: allegedly, I torment the lettuce without actually distributing any dressing.
- He was known to junior officers as 'Goose Pye', while naval historian Nicholas Rodger described him as 'something of a naval grotesque who aroused mingled amusement and contempt'.
- Although his small army (8,000 men at the start of 1690) aroused only French contempt, Louis XIV understood that he had to retain Savoy in the French orbit.
- Yet he is driving toward an impeachment that would damage the Presidency and arouse public contempt for Congress.
- They arouse pity, outrage, contempt and despair.
- The subject of goldfish, however, arouses contempt from Bill Blackburn.
- Particularly among intellectuals and younger people - the three-quarters of the population who were born after the Communist revolution - propaganda arouses mostly contempt, and there is a deepening desire "to throw the rascals out."
- "Ethnic intimidation" is certainly to be condemned, but some singer's accent or slang might arouse some other person's rage or contempt.
- Nixon aroused contempt.
- It arouses contempt in the cop - heart.
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