Significats de throw contempt en anglès

Every measure was adopted to throw contempt upon paganism.

When she saw Bancroft trying to draw Barkman out and throw contempt upon him, she never dreamed of objecting.

This piece of advice has been used to throw contempt upon the study of books, and furnishes a convenient shield for ignorant pretenders.

He is made to talk like a man of the greatest vanity and conceit, and to throw contempt and scorn on everybody else.

Rich and poor joined in throwing contempt on their own representatives.

Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity.

However, of this there is no dispute, that against the nobles, who threw contempt on the meanness of his condition, he contended with much firmness.