"contempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A major difficulty with such a test is that familiarity may breed tolerance rather than contempt.
- In this case, familiarity seems not to have bred contempt.
- "And no amount of association has bred contempt in me."
- I see them every day and familiarity doesn't breed contempt so much as disgust in me.
- They know each other so well that the familiarity has perhaps bred contempt.
- Absolute rules that clash with reality only breed contempt for law.
- In the years since, however, familiarity has bred contempt on both sides.
- He'd seen enough of them for familiarity to breed contempt.
- For many people here, familiarity does not breed contempt, but rather a sense of security.
- Familiarity may breed contempt, but in games it can also be a source of comfort.
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