Contempts

This case affords the most singular instance of the exercise of the doubtful power of punishing for what are called contempts, on record. ❋ Various (N/A)

On the Tenth day of Christmas, my ex-spouse gave to me ten contempts of the divorce decree ❋ Lee Block (2011)

Criminal contempts almost always happen in the context of other cases and the only efficient person to bring them is generally the person objecting to a violation of a courtorder. ❋ Unknown (2010)

: I'm directing staff to prepare subpoenas for the Salahis if the Salahis continue to rebuff this committee's oversight requests they could be subject to contempts of Congress. ❋ Unknown (2009)

August 19, 2008 at 9:54 am oooh the kitteh jest ooozez the contempts all over ❋ Unknown (2008)

The way she presents excerpts and this being from users not developers as I understood it, makes it feel like she contempts their assumed attitudes and assumed persons more than what whas actually said. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Let us next dwell a little on the recital of the wrongs with which they requite us, the contempts and cruelties of which we cannot recite an example in each kind, nay, scarcely the main classes of the several wrongs. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Vuitton et Fils, S.A., 481 U.S. at 820, this legislative prosecution authority is a constitutional anomaly of sorts — a “limited power of self-defense” for Congress, permissible because “any other course ‘leads to the total annihilation of the power of the House of Representatives to guard itself from contempts, and leaves it exposed to every indignity and interruption that rudeness, caprice, or even conspiracy, may meditate against it’” quoting Anderson. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I cannot, for my own part, think so well of myself, as to imagine, that they can wish their kinsman to persevere in his views with regard to me, through such contempts and discouragements. — ❋ Unknown (2006)

The time is indeed come that I can no longer bear those contempts and reflections which a brother, least of all men, is entitled to give. ❋ Unknown (2006)

If I forgive thee, charmer, for these hints, for these reflections, for these wishes, for these contempts, I am not the Lovelace I have been reputed to be; and that thy treatment of me shews that thou thinkest I am. ❋ Unknown (2006)

To enlarge a little upon this subject, May we not infer, that those who would be guilty of throwing these contempts upon a man of temper, who would rather pass by a verbal injury, than to imbrue his hands in blood, know not the measure of true magnanimity? nor how much nobler it is to forgive, and even how much more manly to despise, than to resent, an injury? ❋ Unknown (2006)

But what a whirlwind does she raise in my soul by her proud contempts of me! ❋ Unknown (2006)

I will beg, therefore, to mention a few instances among our friends, where the ladies, notwithstanding their more cramped and confined education, make more than an equal figure with the gentlemen in all the graceful parts of conversation, in spite of the contempts poured out upon our sex by some witty gentlemen, whose writings I have in my eye. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Must I not be deplorably in love, that can go through these difficulties, encounter these contempts? — ❋ Unknown (2006)

I beg pardon, said I, — Too-too ready to make advances, I am always subjecting myself to contempts. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Lydia looked at her leech of a boyfriend in contempt; he'd lost his job, had no prospects, and begged her to quit her job at the club. She refused and told him to drop dead. [Rick Perry], [Michele] [Bachmann] and her husband have earned the contempt of much of the United States; even Santorum has taken on a new meaning. The wife-battering husband arrogantly flirted with female jurors, showing contempt to the court. ❋ Lorelili (2011)

Man like [Sanjay] is bare [contempted]. I heard a mosquito suckled upon his optical sphere and one's gangsterial capabilities have been compromised, [yuh dig]. ❋ Grall But Holy (2022)

John's contemptment was in [high gear] today as he [happily] poured [scorn] on everybody. ❋ Akula (2009)

I have [contempt] [for you] in [my mind]. ❋ Larstait (2003)

A [display] of contemptible [cowardice]. ❋ Amkjo001 (2012)

Man got [contempted], look at him. He [tried] to put a [table] on his food. ❋ Luke O'Niggley III (2022)

[Don't be daft], Superman has been taken out by people much weaker than [Thor]. Check out his [contempt thread]. ❋ MugaSofer (2017)

Keyless "That escort had one of the most putrid and polluted pussies I've ever been in the same room with." Josh "It looked like a scruffy sheep dog mutt trying to stick it's slobbering tongue out. It smelled like [Phil Margera's] briefs after a 5k in a [hot suit], 2 sharts, and a month spent in an abortion [clinic's] medical waste container that has been sitting out in the 115 degree heat index." Keyless "If that doesn't constitute a Contempt of Cunt charge, then I don't know what the hell does." ❋ Bosh Jurton (2011)

Judge: You are in contempt of court, [Mr Smith]. Mr Smith: Yes, I am. I am surprised you [noticed]. You don't seem to have noticed [anything else]. ❋ Neubigmac (2017)

ask for contempt someone is [doing something] he/she thinks is important, while others [does care] or think [it's not important] ❋ Word_study (2017)