It suits them to forget the postmen's strike and the contemptuous way in which they ground the postmen into ignominious defeat.
He said, in a rather contemptuous way, that these wretched people were not even fit to run the fire and police services.
Lee himself is very fair in his comments, not contemptuous of attitudes with which he disagrees, or scrupulously careful to avoid giving offence to any group of readers.
Brown, in particular, was contemptuous of the foreign office's caution and, convinced that his officials were plotting against him, ignored advice he did not want to hear (p. 109).
She was contemptuous of the educational establishments and employers that refused to recognise her abilities and of the benefits authorities that didn't understand the systems they were supposed to operate.
It is more likely that physicians (and students) who have an attitude of respect toward their patients will try to behave respectfully than someone who is disdainful or contemptuous.
It shall remind us of what happens when freedom, the most precious good of mankind, gets lost and is replaced by dogmas contemptuous of human life.
If they saw the abysmal cultural and technical level of most applications that confront the average conservation officer, they would be less contemptuous.
