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An old saying suggests that familiarity breeds contempt.
He always speaks of the government with contempt.
I feel nothing but contempt for such behavior.
Natalia Ginzburg once stated that children should be taught not the little virtues, but the great ones.
Not thrift, but generosity and an indifference to money, not caution, but courage and a contempt for danger, not a desire for success, but a desire to be, and to know.
I have a fine contempt for him.
He seems to hold people from Kakogawa in contempt.
Her behavior is beneath contempt.
Its English prototype, called by the same invidious name, was given the prefix "dog," because the word, which is always intended to express contempt in the British mind, is applied in this case for the flower's lack of fragrance.
Familiarity alone breeds contempt for this plant, that certainly possesses much beauty.
Because it lacks the fragrance of sweetbrier, which it otherwise closely resembles, it has been branded with the dog prefix as a mark of contempt.
Dog, used as a prefix by several of the plant's folk names, implies contempt for its worthlessness.
' Most of the company felt such misplaced penitence and submission, as they deemed it, beneath contempt; but while Eleanor had pride enough to hold up her head so that no one might suppose her to be disappointed, she felt a strange awe of the conscientiousness that repented when others would only have felt resentment-relief, perhaps, at not again coming into contact with one so unlike other men as almost to alarm her.
So there she lay, a being formed by nature and intellect to have been the inspiring helpmeet of some noble-hearted man, the stay of a kingdom, the education of all around her in all that was beautiful and refined, but cast away upon one of the most mean and selfish-hearted of mankind, who only perceived her great qualities to hate and dread their manifestation in a woman, to crush them by his contempt; and finally, though he did not originate the cruel slander that broke her heart, he envenomed it by his sneers, so as to deprive her of all power of resistance.
There are men cutting figures to-day who are but objects of contempt; they are not fitted, physically or mentally, for the parts they play.
We complain of the contempt with which practical men regard theory, and,[67] to confound them, triumphantly exhibit the speculative achievements of master minds.
Simply because nine out of ten of the theories with which he is acquainted are deserving of nothing better than contempt.
It drew my eyes towards it with irresistible fascination as it shimmered in the blue, too preoccupied with heaven to think even with contempt on the designs of a son of earth to reach its inviolate crest.
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