The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Only the contemptible fear 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.
You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
In politics nothing is contemptible.