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  • It is contempt. (10)
  • Contempt of that lady! (10)
  • It was contempt of life. (12)
  • Contempt I have not deserved. (10)
  • Contempt I have not deserved. (22)
  • I did not conceal my contempt. (12)
  • If you stay, you will earn my contempt. (10)
  • Those English sow contempt of us all over Europe. (10)
  • You are wrong in affecting contempt of the Press. (10)
  • His contempt for our weak intellects is ineffable. (10)
  • I fear neither your accusations nor your contempt. (12)
  • He was contemptuous, yet could not hold his contempt. (12)
  • I might prefer to look on the whole thing as beneath contempt. (8)
  • But there would be no contempt of Kit Ines in a tussle with him. (10)
  • Gannius, in contempt, throws off the mask: he also is a concurrent. (10)
  • I love him for his love of common sense, his contempt of mean deceit. (10)
  • He dwelt on his contempt of them, to curtain the power they could stir. (10)
  • Contempt is a sentiment that cannot be entertained by comic intelligence. (10)
  • When, after, all, she found only Voss, she could not conceal her contempt. (12)
  • The genuine contempt in that sharp burst of anger impressed the aged butler. (8)
  • The idea of his returning no more Elizabeth treated with the utmost contempt. (4)
  • A bottle of Pol Roger to his own cheek had given him a new contempt for James. (8)
  • She communicated to him the greed, disgust, contempt, and shame that she had seen. (12)
  • And he became exceedingly opprobrious, and uttered contempt of the name of Feverel. (10)
  • And all his inherent contempt for the average or common welled up as he watched them. (8)
  • And he thought of the deceased Heron, who had had nothing to leave her, with contempt. (8)
  • The entire absence of sentiment in her inspired a queer species of contempt in Soames. (8)
  • She turned from the silly things in contempt that they should even have interested her. (9)
  • Perhaps his inbred English contempt for foreigners and artists kept him from direct action. (8)
  • Mrs. March gave him a glance of silent contempt, and he hastened to atone for his stupidity. (9)
  • He will have a wholesome contempt for facile success; he will measure by exacting standards. (16)
  • The next day he was summoned to show reason why he should not be found in contempt of court. (16)
  • The contempt of the wild hunters of the plains for the peaceful tillers of the soil was great. (19)
  • He displayed his contempt of fortune by letting his heap of bank-notes lie on Impair, and he won. (10)
  • Beaton intended a contempt that came from the bitterness of having himself once milked the family cow. (9)
  • Doubtless her sharp instinct served her by telling her that her contempt would hurt him shrewdly now. (10)
  • Doubtless her sharp instinct served her by telling her that her contempt would hurt him shrewdly now. (22)
  • A family resting its pride on mere ancestry provoked his contempt, if it did not show him one of his men. (10)
  • She picked up the shawls, and handed them to Mr. Libby, on whom her eyes blazed their contempt and wonder. (9)
  • That this paralytic old fellow should express contempt for his virility was really the last thing in jests. (8)
  • They, meantime, who had a contempt for sleep, waited aloft to hold debate over the result of the interview. (10)
  • He had powers of sarcasm and a relentless rancor in his contempt which those who knew him best appreciated most. (9)
  • An existence without colour, without anxious throbbing, without salient matter for thought, challenged contempt. (10)
  • She is now an object of indifference to him, and she would be one of contempt were he to understand her emotions. (4)
  • I should deserve utter contempt if I dared to suppose that true attachment and constancy were known only by woman. (4)
  • And all the time a sort of contempt for this soft and almost sentimental feeling made her tighten her lips and frown. (8)
  • He began to respect her, relishing her exquisite contempt, and he reflected that widows could be terrible creatures. (10)
  • Now, without having committed any piece of public folly, he was made a thing of pity and contempt before his friends! (13)
  • The tone was not one of anger, nor of sorrow, not even of contempt, but there was in it something quiet that froze the blood. (8)
  • They utter contempt of Camillo, who is this day to be Pontifically divorced from his wife to espouse the detested Michiella. (10)
  • He exposed you to the contempt of your school-fellows because of a breach in my correspondence with a base-born ferule-swinger. (10)
  • They chose to regard it as a matter of the dealing with Indians, and put aside the question of the contempt of civil authority. (10)
  • This killing contempt she transformed into a weapon, the two-edged sword of her wit, and this she turned against her own breast. (12)
  • She tried to disperse the growing burden by an inward summons to contempt of the journalistic profession, but nothing would come. (10)
  • The old man smiled his fierce, simple smile, and in his sharp eyes March fancied contempt of the ambition he had balked in his son. (9)
  • They were full of reason, conscience, horror, full of impatience, contempt, revolt; but they did not love the masses of their fellow-men. (8)
  • Rosamund liked him for his humanity; but she, too, feared he was a slack Romfrey when she heard him speak in precocious contempt of glory. (10)
  • Everard Romfrey was one of those who thought themselves justified in insisting upon the continuation of the war, in contempt of our allies. (10)
  • He turned from the idea with instinctive repugnance, and an honest feeling of contempt for the men who in that way had sneaked into fortune. (13)
  • The old man presented this aspect of the case with a good-natured contempt, which included Fulkerson and his enthusiasm in an obvious liking. (9)
  • We loathe it the more, by the measure of our contempt for them, when we have made the people within the shadow-circle of our person slavish. (10)
  • One of the dangers of scholarship was a peculiar danger in the Cambridge keeping, but Lowell was almost as averse as Longfellow from contempt. (9)
  • A stout deceiver has his merits, but a feeble hypocrite applying to friends to fortify him in his shifts and tergiversations must provoke contempt. (10)
  • On the contrary, his attitude toward them is almost always one of frank cynicism, with indifference as its mildest form and contempt as its commonest. (16)
  • She left him, feeling the contempt of the brain feverishly quickened and fine-pointed, for the brain chewing the cud in the happy pastures of unawakedness. (10)
  • For if he had a natural contempt for his Board, with the exception of the chairman, he had a still more natural contempt for his shareholders. (8)

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