contemn

Example Sentences

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"Did not William Blake contemn reason and paint the ghost of a flea?"

From Time Magazine Archive

If we contemn what others admire, we make ourselves odious; if we admire what they despise, we are equally ridiculous.

From Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There by Hazlitt, William

"If you contemn my thanks, then I, poor orphan, have no other way to show my gratitude."

From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Speaking contemptuously of him, I but contemn nothing.

From Satires And Profanities by Foote, G. W. (George William)

Vile as these motives seem, they are too near akin to the general springs of human action for us to contemn them.

From A Trip to Cuba by Howe, Julia Ward