"contempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In fact, his fiercest contempt is not for his white oppressors but for a rival liberation group, the Pan Africanist Congress, which competes for foreign sympathizers by presenting itself as the more authentic champion of the African cause.
- He had developed a fierce moral contempt for those who had given up the fight against the drought and retreated to the coast.
- Behind the earnest eyes and the sincere, heartfelt, sympathetic smile lies fierce contempt.
- His expression was one of fierce contempt.
- "I'll get rid of it," he whispered, looking at it again with fierce contempt.
- And she shrugged her shoulders in fierce, angry contempt.
- The newly-hatched Grougal, as Adamaï calls him, reacts with fierce contempt for Qilby.
- He really never changes, Billy thought, with a contempt so fierce it caused his guts to burn and almost made him shudder.
- His racial pride has contorted into a fierce contempt for those he feels bring down the race - people like C.J., a sweet blues-picking country boy, whom Waters views as a dangerous parody of everything whites revile in blacks.
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