contempt

[Con*tempt·]

Reserve the noun contempt for an extreme lack of respect: a food snob has nothing but contempt for mass produced burgers and fries at a fast food joint.

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The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteement mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.

Noun
a willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body

Noun
a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous

Noun
open disrespect for a person or thing

Noun
lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike; "he was held in contempt"; "the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary"

n.
The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.

n.
The state of being despised; disgrace; shame.

n.
An act or expression denoting contempt.

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Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the respect due to its authority.

Contempt

Con*tempt" (?; 215), n. [L. contemptus, fr. contemnere: cf. OF. contempt. See Contemn.] 1. The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteement mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.

Criminal contempt of public feeling.

Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.

2. The state of being despised; disgrace; shame.

Contempt and begarry hangs upon thy back.

3. An act or expression denoting contempt.

Little insults and contempts.

The contempt and anger of his lip.

4. (Law) Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the respect due to its authority. &hand; Contempt is in some jurisdictions extended so as to include publications reflecting injuriously on a court of justice, or commenting unfairly on pending proceedings; in other jurisdictions the courts are prohibited by statute or by the constitution from thus exercising this process. Syn. -- Disdain; scorn; derision; mockery; contumely; neglect; disregard; slight.

The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteement mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.

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Usage Examples

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair.

Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

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Other Usage Examples

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.

Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.