Only the contemptible fear contempt.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.
In politics nothing is contemptible.