Just as Climate Change deniers attract massive scorn, so these economic flat-earthers deserve contempt.

It would suggest also that she deserved not just contempt but at least some small measure of sympathy.

Anyone who actually uses language evolution as an excuse to justify their lackwitted misuse of the language deserves contempt.

No mea culpa deserves such contempt.

In his view, they deserved only contempt.

She hardly deserves such universal contempt.

He knew he deserved only contempt for having brought them to that place and buried himself in petty work.

He deserves contempt not respect and his ability to handle further cases as serious as this should be looked at by the Lord Chancellor's office.

For Janacek, this deserved only contempt: 'Today's opera.

I should deserve utter contempt if I dared to suppose that true attachment and constancy were known only by woman.