feel contempt for

“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.

“Today we feel contempt for an organization that has shown its true values by giving the yellow card to players and the red card to tolerance,” the FSA said.

“Clearly we have people in America who feel contempt for our country,” Kennedy said.

Whatever love you’d trick someone into giving you would be love for an act, and it’s hard not to feel contempt for people you can trick like that.

Make those characters more stylized, more broadly comic, and the viewer is let off the hook: it’s O.K. to feel contempt for a contempt magnet, a selfish person who is just asking for it—asking to be yelled at, told to get thicker skin, to grow up, to man up, to shut up.