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Looking for sentences and phrases with the word contemn? Here are some examples.
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Examples from Classical Literature
| Reward my temperance with some lawful favour, Though you contemn my person. |
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| I have a husband who makes war upon me because I contemn his bed and board. |
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| Perhaps this may appear to you to be only an old wife's tale, which you will contemn. |
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| I do not ask that you should pity these women with whom I have to deal, still less that you should contemn them. |
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| Leave it to miserable fools, to contemn the wisdom of the Most High. |
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| I contemn the world when I think on it, and myself when I translate it. |
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| Thy pompous delicacies I contemn, And count thy specious gifts no gifts, but guiles. |
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| There was, in truth, danger lest the Rhodians should contemn the Romans! |
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| He thought to himself that there could be no greater torture in the world than at the same time to love and to contemn. |
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| For I esteem those names of men so poor, Who could do mighty things, and could contemn Riches, though offered from the hand of kings. |
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