be contemptuous of

基本解释

We thought it was contemptible of him to be contemptuous of people for being weak.
我们认为他因别人身体虚弱而加以蔑视的态度是可鄙的。
The snobbery about the tournament has been absurd, but there are few nations left who can afford to be contemptuous of it.
对欧联杯不够重视已经让人不能理解，而且依照现在的情况，也没有哪个国家有资本轻视这项赛事。
But to come up with a few declarations or protocols and ask the Irish to vote again would not just be contemptuous of democracy: the turnout and margin of defeat also suggest that it might fail.
但是如果采用诸如发表一些宣言或者议定书要求爱尔兰进行再次公投那对民主来说就不仅仅是侮辱那么简单了：结果和失败的概率意味着公投还是不会成功的。

Although pro-slavery writers will become deeply contemptuous of Natural Law of Natural Law doctrine as it can be applied to the possibilities of man.
虽然亲奴制的作家,会非常蔑视自然法和及其规律法则,因为它能激发人类的潜能
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British admirals tend to be contemptuous of such ideas.
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But to come up with a few declarations or protocols and ask the Irish to vote again would not just be contemptuous of democracy: the turnout and margin of defeat also suggest that it might fail.
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In his speeches he revealed himself to be profoundly contemptuous of blacks beyond what was required politically, and through his wife he was himself a slaveholder.
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