It verges on scorn.

The bold man glanced at the gangster with hatred and contempt.

The Fund s proposal has been greeted with predictable disdain and derision by the financial industry.

'Society!' he exclaimed with contempt. 'What need can I have of Society?'

Sadly, most bureaucrats still look upon human rights values with disdain.

Tom learnt from Mr Ogawa that many people have scorn for the nouveau riche.

Indeed, liberal in both its meanings economic and moral is disdained.

Instead of slapping him in the face, she spit in it, and walked contemptuously away.

Instead of slapping him in the face, she spit in it, and walked contemptuously away.

US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld provoked the world's ire through a mocking disdain for global public opinion.

The Arab League has given Egypt the lead role in bringing the two sides together, but Hamas has spurned Egypt s proposals.

An academic by profession, Abbas has tried mightily to lead the Palestinian people with civility, adherence to democratic principles, and public disdain for violence.

'To labour for God with works to save one's soul by fasting,' said the Countess Lydia Ivanovna with fastidious disdain, 'those are the barbarous opinions of our monks...

Among people at risk for Huntington's Disease, for example, about 15 spurn taking the test that would provide definitive information.

In time, even the most well meaning come to regard their wards with cold detachment, if not dehumanizing contempt.

Tokol wives face public stigmatization, especially among women, who often view them as seeking happiness at the expense of men s primary families.

He disdains climate science and public health science when it conflicts with the beliefs and interests of his core supporters.

They are fascinated with snakes. They haven't got that steely thing that you end up either fearing or hating or despising or loathing them in some way.

The Bush administration proclaimed a national security policy that insists that America provides the only sustainable model for national success, and asserted its right to engage in unilateral, preemptive military strikes.

It treated the UN Security Council with disdain in its rush to war in Iraq, invoking justifications that have not stood up to scrutiny.

You see how absurd it is, that because I am supposed to be unfaithful,' she said contemptuously, 'he wishes to have the use of my property.'

I wish I did but even with a Canadian one they treat me with the utmost disdain and hate.

Closer to home, the Kingdom despises Syrian President Bashar al Assad for his alliance with Iran and duplicity in Lebanon.

In progressive liberal circles, the demand that the Preamble to the Constitution of the European Union include a reference to God and or the Christian Roots of Europe has been met with derision, even contempt.

Ahmadinejad maintains some support among the poor and rural classes, but he is viewed with disdain by much of the ruling class, even within his own political camp.

By breaking the Pact's ban on fiscal deficits exceeding 3 of GDP, France and Germany undermined this limit as a key criterion for determining whether countries are ready for eurozone membership. Would denial of admission to the eurozone because a country fails to fulfil rules that current members spurn really be legitimate?

Would denial of admission to the eurozone because a country fails to fulfil rules that current members spurn really be legitimate?

Instead, Saudi authorities treated Iraq s leaders with contempt and closed their eyes to Wahhabi fatwas that encouraged jihadi volunteers to fight against the Shia apostates.

All those people, like the holders of our drink monopolies formerly, get their money in ways that earn contempt they disregard that contempt and afterwards, by means of what they have dishonestly earned, they buy off that contempt.'

North Korea s leaders have a history of aggressiveness, a demonstrated contempt for their people, and a record of selling just about anything (from drugs and counterfeit dollars to missile parts) to earn hard currency.

Even though, like the majority of France s political class, she was educated at Ecole Nationale d Administration (ENA), she spurns the language and habits of this elite factory.

Confronted with disaster in Iraq, the risk of Afghanistan following Iraq into chaos, and the escalating crisis with Iran, the US can no longer treat the NATO allies with disdain.

Coming to terms with the idea that people voted for Trump either because they shared in his racism and bigotry, or that they were willing to overlook those things, is soul crushing.

Since his installation as Guinean Head of State, Alpha CONDE's governance has been characterised by a total contempt for the authority of law, and a systematic violation of the provisions of the constitution on which the principles of state law are founded.

That thought may lead us to disdain the kind of philanthropic graffiti that leads to donors names being prominently displayed on concert halls, art museums, and college buildings.

Previously spurned by America in its attempts to use its longstanding contacts in Asia, this assistance appears to have convinced America that Russia can be of real help in its diplomacy with North Korea.

This has led the rest of the population of Egypt to feel contempt for Cairo and consider it to be below them, to the extent that the term for going to Cairo is I'm going down to Cairo .