treat with contempt
Example Sentences
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And may those to whom the people at large have delegated their trust, and in whom they have reposed their confidence, treat with contempt the calculations, and miscalculations, of one without head and without heart!
From The King's Own by Marryat, Frederick
They treat with contempt all writers who are unfortunately nec ponere lucum Artifices, nec rus saturum laudare.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
It is easy for us, who are so powerless, to call this falsehood, and, proud of our timid honesty, to treat with contempt the heroes who have accepted the battle of life under other conditions.
From The Life of Jesus by Renan, Ernest
But that which had been devoted to the god and been granted to the people as a public ornament and public property, it was not decent for any mortal to treat with contempt.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
"The daughter of the people loves truth and manly bearing, Stephen Morley; and will treat with contempt all those who slander women, whether they be nobles or serfs."
From Sybil, or the Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
