An officer can be court-martialed for using "contemptuous words" about the President.

He just about broke Cumberland in half with a few contemptuous words.

Under military law, a commissioned officer who uses "contemptuous words" against the President is subject to a variety of punishments, including court-martial.

"The word 'spoiler' is a contemptuous word that implies we're second class."

With tears in her eyes, she drew herself up, and her lips parted to utter one contemptuous word.

They can produce words that are caressing, diminutive, familiar, vulgar or contemptuous.

His contemptuous words burned like acid, and something happened inside her.

But his eyes flickered, as well-flickered with the knowledge that those words, however savage, however contemptuous, were also true.

Neither does the prohibition on "contemptuous words" apply to retirees.

That argument was a challenge to history, for contemptuous words had always been considered outside the protection of the First Amendment.