In fact, his fiercest contempt is not for his white oppressors but for a rival liberation group, the Pan Africanist Congress, which competes for foreign sympathizers by presenting itself as the more authentic champion of the African cause.

He had developed a fierce moral contempt for those who had given up the fight against the drought and retreated to the coast.

Behind the earnest eyes and the sincere, heartfelt, sympathetic smile lies fierce contempt.

His expression was one of fierce contempt.

"I'll get rid of it," he whispered, looking at it again with fierce contempt.

And she shrugged her shoulders in fierce, angry contempt.

The newly-hatched Grougal, as Adamaï calls him, reacts with fierce contempt for Qilby.

He really never changes, Billy thought, with a contempt so fierce it caused his guts to burn and almost made him shudder.

His racial pride has contorted into a fierce contempt for those he feels bring down the race - people like C.J., a sweet blues-picking country boy, whom Waters views as a dangerous parody of everything whites revile in blacks.