contemn
Example Sentences
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"Did not William Blake contemn reason and paint the ghost of a flea?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Perhaps it was due to perseverance having been rewarded and to having gained a lodging that, hungry though they were, they began to contemn their supply of bread.
From George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life by George Manville Fenn
"We can scarcely contemn the hardihood of a Government that has made Crofton a bishop, and Hawes a general," said Helen, with a flashing eye and a lip curled in superciliousness.
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever
It was the sort of thing that in ordinary dealing we denounce and even contemn, as the effort of unsolicited pretension to thrust itself against barred gates with immodest vigor.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
It is for her to respect not to contemn her great coadjutor.
From Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study by Arthur Glyn Leonard
