CONTEMPT in a Sentence

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184 example sentences for CONTEMPT, such as:
1. There was frank contempt in Jeems' voice.
2. Such behavior will bring you into contempt.
3. He faced imprisonment for contempt of court.
4. Being silent is the perfect way to show contempt.
5. His treatment of his children is beneath contempt.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of CONTEMPT
contempt
 n.  open disrespect for a person or thing
 n.  a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous
Classic Sentence: (163 in 11 pages)
1  There was frank contempt in Jeems' voice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Scarlett recalled with contempt Melanie's thin childish figure, her serious heart-shaped face that was plain almost to homeliness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  He hated their cool courtesy to him and their contempt for his social status, so inadequately covered by their courtesy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  Scarlett, looking at him with the affectionate contempt that mothers feel for small swaggering sons, knew that he would be very drunk by sundown.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  However, remembering her plan, Scarlett smothered her contempt and cast such a flashing smile of greeting at him that he stopped short, his arm outheld to Suellen and goggled at Scarlett in pleased bewilderment.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  The red lips under the close-clipped black mustache curled down and there was a glint of amused contempt in his black eyes--contempt, as if he listened to the braggings of children.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  There was contempt in his manner as in his eyes, contempt overlaid with an air of courtesy that somehow burlesqued their own manners.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  Now he was gone and she was married to a man she not only did not love but for whom she had an active contempt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  It was almost as if he overdid his courtesy because his contempt for everybody present was so great.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  It was as though he bore an impersonal contempt for everyone and everything in the South, the Confederacy in particular, and took no pains to conceal it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
11  She could be sorry for Melanie now, sorry with a faint contempt for her blindness, her stupidity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
12  "He's a gentleman," said Rhett, and Scarlett wondered how it was possible to convey such cynicism and contempt in that one honorable word.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
13  With a thrill she looked up at the frail swaying girl for whom she had never had any feelings but of dislike and contempt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  "She really must care about him," thought Scarlett in contempt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
15  She'd have to put ruffles in her bosom to make them look larger and she had always had contempt for girls who resorted to such subterfuges.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  She'd developed what she considered a healthy contempt for authority.
2  I shall treat that suggestion with the contempt it deserves.
3  I feel nothing but contempt for people who treat children so cruelly.
4  You should treat those remarks with the contempt that they deserve.
5  His treatment of his children is beneath contempt.
6  Such behavior will bring you into contempt.
7  There was a prima facie case that a contempt of court had been committed.
8  Civil contempt is not properly regarded as a criminal offence.
9  At school she had complete contempt for all her teachers.
10  The tobacco companies may be guilty of contempt of court for refusing to produce the documents.
11  He faced imprisonment for contempt of court.
12  Politicians seem to be generally held in contempt by the police.
13  Speak with contempt of none,form slave to king,the meanest bee,and will use,a sting.
14  Being silent is the perfect way to show contempt.
15  He showed his contempt for social etiquette by not wearing a tie.