feel contempt for
Example Sentences
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“Today we feel contempt for an organisation that has shown its true values by giving the yellow card to players and a red card for tolerance,” the group said.
From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2022
Even the person genetically predisposed to despise everything Coach K and Duke cannot feel contempt for the two Olympic gold medals Krzyzewski guided the United States to in Beijing and London.
From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 2013
True, these data do reveal that certain parts of the brain become more active when people look at images of people they hate and presumably feel contempt for them as they do so.
From Salon • Jun. 8, 2013
Do you feel contempt for them now?The ordinary soldiers were executing orders.
From The Guardian • Mar. 30, 2013
“You are persuading me to take it, saying that it's a sister sends it, but inwardly, in your heart won't you feel contempt for me if I take it, eh?”
From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
