complete contempt
Frequency: 6.07.1 per million words
a total and absolute lack of respect
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Examples (10)
- He showed complete contempt for the rules by ignoring them entirely.
- Her voice was filled with complete contempt as she addressed her former business partner.
- The dictator ruled with complete contempt for human rights and international law.
- After the betrayal, he felt nothing but complete contempt for his oldest friend.
- She treated his apology with complete contempt, refusing to even look at him.
- The defendant looked at the jury with an expression of complete contempt throughout the trial.
- The veteran politician regarded the newcomer's idealistic proposals with complete contempt.
- There is a complete contempt for customer safety in that company's policies.
- The public developed a complete contempt for the corrupt official after the scandal broke.
- It was the way he smirked that revealed his complete contempt for everyone in the room.