show contempt

Does he suppose it advances the cause of modern literature to show contempt for elite standards of scholarship?

To be sure, if you go about like King Philip's page, and show contempt to your equals, you must endure the consequences yourself.

"Then stay and pray if you want to," answered Mogente, without even troubling himself to show contempt.

Thus young men, the best of them, show contempt for the courage and ability of the women they admire.

Even the names habitually used by the Whites for their neighbors show contempt.

The enemy will only obey me in so far as I frighten him, but then he will not dare to show contempt for me.