Ditto my salad-tossing technique, which arouses undisguised contempt: allegedly, I torment the lettuce without actually distributing any dressing.

He was known to junior officers as 'Goose Pye', while naval historian Nicholas Rodger described him as 'something of a naval grotesque who aroused mingled amusement and contempt'.

Although his small army (8,000 men at the start of 1690) aroused only French contempt, Louis XIV understood that he had to retain Savoy in the French orbit.

Yet he is driving toward an impeachment that would damage the Presidency and arouse public contempt for Congress.

They arouse pity, outrage, contempt and despair.

The subject of goldfish, however, arouses contempt from Bill Blackburn.

Particularly among intellectuals and younger people - the three-quarters of the population who were born after the Communist revolution - propaganda arouses mostly contempt, and there is a deepening desire "to throw the rascals out."

"Ethnic intimidation" is certainly to be condemned, but some singer's accent or slang might arouse some other person's rage or contempt.

Nixon aroused contempt.

It arouses contempt in the cop - heart.