The bitter contempt he'd nurtured for five long years lifted like a sprung blind, and now more than anything else he wanted her with him.

The red-haired Priestess was gazing at her with a bitter contempt.

Would he perhaps be amused or even filled with bitter contempt?

"You wouldn't have helped," she said with quiet, bitter contempt.

I do not wonder," he said more firmly, "that you feel bitter contempt for me now.

The guard looked up at him with bitter contempt.

He glanced up at the dock with bitter contempt.

The last word was said with such a note of bitter contempt even Mike flinched.

"Oh, so it's you," he said with bitter contempt.

Her voice was quiet but in her eyes there was bitter contempt for herself.