noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ withering
▪
She reserved her most withering ~ for journalists.
▪ public
▪
He has suffered public ~ and humiliation.
VERB + SCORN
▪ heap , pour
▪
Abuse and ~ were heaped upon the new tax.
▪ reserve
▪
He reserved particular ~ for the director.
▪ deserve
▪
What have I done to deserve such ~?
PREPOSITION
▪ with ~
▪
He stared with ~ at his interviewers.
▪ ~ for
▪
He didn't try to hide his ~ for our way of doing things.
PHRASES
▪ an object of ~
▪
His poetry was the object of ~.