adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
withering contempt (= that makes you feel very inferior )
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She treated some of her staff with withering contempt.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
look
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The dark-haired vibrancer caught him staring and gave him a withering look .
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Be prepared to question this if you want to, and do not retreat from any withering looks .
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She rose, threw one withering look at Cranston and followed the others out.
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Charles turned abruptly round and gave his wife a withering look as reporters homed in on the pair.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Be prepared to question this if you want to, and do not retreat from any withering looks.
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Billy Bingham, whose make-do-and-mend team were no match for their southern neighbours' withering power game, added his good wishes.
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I had watched her successor, David Ennals, come under withering union fire for cutting back on the hospital building programme.
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Momentarily they lift her world beyond its withering perimeter.
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Mrs Thatcher's withering contempt was far more damaging.
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Rotten had also adopted an increasingly withering view of his colleagues.
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The dark-haired vibrancer caught him staring and gave him a withering look.