"contempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But American translators took it as a firm rejection, based on the more common definition, "ignore, treat with silent contempt."
- He treated the whole business with silent contempt.
- They mean to destroy a plague ship, Koloth thought, regarding the younger officer with silent contempt.
- I think we can treat them with silent contempt.
- Murdock and Razor treated that with the silent contempt it deserved.
- The old man treated this suggestion with silent contempt.
- By the fifth day of the trial he was refusing to answer questions, silent contempt that was making the jury uneasy.
- Irwin promptly ordered that he receive an additional 36 lashes for "silent contempt".
- I think," he said, "that you can treat them with silent contempt.
- Scott looked at him an instant with silent contempt.
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