Or, to show withering contempt for a beginner, one might write "RTM" - read the manual.

A master problem solver in an industry where perception equals reality, she is blessed with both a withering contempt for the rules of the Hollywood game and an unconditional belief in them.

He scrutinised my face with wild and withering contempt.

She looks at SONNY with a withering contempt he can't stand up to, then at UPTON, then at the others.

Her "Ladies Who Lunch" suddenly curdles as she redirects her withering contempt for her acquaintances onto herself.

Throughout the intervening years Polly would never forget the withering contempt of that woman's tone.

Given the withering contempt expressed by the Situationists for 'prositus', one shudders to think what Debord et al.

I retreated in the face of such withering contempt for my national cuisine, and left him to get on with the floor and dream of his next visit to Bocuse.

I reserved my most withering contempt for what was known around town as the Shrine of Texas Liberty, or, more simply, the Alamo.

The voice's edge sharpened to a withering contempt.