Example Sentences

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When she chose, she could be the awe-inspiring chaperon, no less completely than she was at other times the contemner of the commonplace.

From The Emancipated by Gissing, George

He is generally a coward in respect to men, and a contemner of God.—“To say a man lieth,” says Montaigne, “is to say that he is audacious towards God, and a coward towards men.”

From Talkers With Illustrations by Bate, John

"Thou art a bold man to say so," replied the Doctor angrily, and with a glance as though it were meant to annihilate this contemner of the celestial art.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John

If the infinitive mood is really a declinable substantive, none of our grammarians have placed it in the right chapter; except that bold contemner of all grammatical and literary authority, Oliver B. Peirce.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

A week ago he was a cynical clear-sighted modern, a contemner of illusions, a swallower of formulas, a breaker of shams—one who had seen through the heroical and found it silly.

From Huntingtower by Buchan, John