Those four did not know each other, but engaged in a conversation and soon found common ground in speaking contemptuously about Jews.

"If you've not heard of me," he spoke contemptuously, "you're no seaman."

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

I spoke contemptuously, for the idea of the Tinker as a fighting man seemed to me laughable.

Many Harlem residents spoke contemptuously of the police officers.

He spoke contemptuously of people who loved creature comforts yet reveled in his own celebrity.

And he speaks contemptuously of those who truly want to help the homeless.

She obviously believed that I must have a thousand such as Huard at my beck and call to speak so contemptuously of them.

Valentine felt he should reprimand Glass, but he wasn't speaking contemptuously of any particular person, just the practice in general.

The armies themselves spoke contemptuously of chasing drug traffickers as a job better suited for the police.