treat with contempt
Example Sentences
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It has got to live; that is the secret of the commonplace and even absurd books which reviewers treat with contempt, and readers buy in thousands.
From Father Payne by Benson, Arthur Christopher
By the way, South Kensington has sent me some inquiry about Examinations, which I treat with contempt, as doubtless you have a duplicate.
From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Huxley, Leonard
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
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
How dare you enter a compartment reserved For Ladies Only, fill it with vile smoke, and treat with contempt the rules of our organisation department?
From Glories of Spain by Wood, Charles W. (William)
