treat with contempt
Example Sentences
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By the way, South Kensington has sent me some inquiry about Examinations, which I treat with contempt, as doubtless you have a duplicate.
From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Huxley, Leonard
It has got to live; that is the secret of the commonplace and even absurd books which reviewers treat with contempt, and readers buy in thousands.
From Father Payne by Benson, Arthur Christopher
He was impatient at any opposition, and disposed to treat with contempt the advice of others.
From A History of the Moravian Church by Hutton, Joseph Edmund
And may those to whom the people at large have delegated their trust, and in whom they have reposed their confidence, treat with contempt the calculations, and miscalculations, of one without head and without heart!
From The King's Own by Marryat, Frederick
It is easy for us, who are so powerless, to call this falsehood, and, proud of our timid honesty, to treat with contempt the heroes who have accepted the battle of life under other conditions.
From The Life of Jesus by Renan, Ernest
