In Wales, backing for devolution dwindled away until it was rejected contemptuously by a four-to-one margin.

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The photos and videos posted on the Met's Facebook page inflamed factions pro and con that contemptuously regard each other as Luddites and Jacobins.

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And that may be where a few of you snort contemptuously.

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The flames simply seemed to reach contemptuously higher.

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At age 82, he came back as prime minister (for the fourth time), and in several exhausting months almost single-handedly pushed Home Rule through Parliament, only to see it contemptuously discarded by the House of Lords.

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When Kenya's ill-equipped and untrained police arrived at the scene, carrying truncheons and rifles instead of spades and pickaxes, Nairobians, often thought selfish and corrupt by other Kenyans, contemptuously swept the police aside as they plunged in to free victims from the rubble.

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