"contempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Law enforcement officials reserve a special contempt for police killers, particularly the ones who elude capture for years.
- Tolstoy made a lasting impression on Krupskaya; it was said that she had "a special contempt for stylish clothes and comfort."
- "Prisons are the next version of slavery," she said, voicing special contempt for private prisons.
- But California merlot has taken its hits this year, most notably in the movie "Sideways," which treated the wine with special contempt.
- Turner and his comrades save their special contempt for the ordinary people, who care about nothing beyond being kept comfortable and entertained.
- As for those U.S. officials who lecture them on free trade, Japan's envoys must have a special contempt.
- I held a special contempt for people who cowered in their cars as they waited for the light to change at 57th and Woodlawn.
- She pronounced the dog's name with special contempt.
- As a man and a cop, he viewed that class of criminal with special contempt.
- And he reserved special contempt for regional economic initiatives originating in Washington.
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