contempt
IPA: kʌntˈɛmpt
noun
- (uncountable) The state or act of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn, disdain.
- The state of being despised or dishonored; disgrace.
- (law) Open disrespect or willful disobedience of the authority of a court of law or legislative body.
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Examples of "contempt" in Sentences
- It's contemptible to say the least.
- This process is farcical and contemptible.
- That was the only one of its contemptible kind.
- I find your comments contemptible and dismissive.
- Hatred of the government gave way to a jaded contempt.
- In hindsight, my contempt is actually mixed with pity.
- It may be a blog, but that doesn't mean it's contemptible.
- He is the subject of envy and contempt at the castle court.
- He quickly 'rendered himself the contempt of the Hollanders.'
- This proposal was dismissed with the utmost indignation and contempt.
- But his action is symptomatic of a contempt for the authority of arbcom.
- Thus comes what I describe as his contempt for public opinion, and I do not think that is too strong a word.
- The word "contempt" has become an important part of recent literature on relationships in the civilian world.
- On November 6 this year, Amnesty launched an international campaign to end what it described as contempt for human rights in
- A number of incidents lately made me realize that even we enlightened liberal types still fear that this contempt is a factor in our relationships, even when it's not.
- You seem to find it easy to badmouth religion and tradition. your contempt is almost funny if you did not take it so serious. your posts are bullshit and you are bullshit.
- Perhaps as the American framers conceived of the operation of their system, a wide spread and deeply felt, national, sense of repugnance, a feeling that democratic and constitutional values are being held in contempt is enough in constitutional terms to self-define conduct as “high crime and misdemeanour.”
- Public Prosecutor (Krause), who has been deeply offended by the slur cast upon his judgment through the orders from Pretoria to keep the accused in prison instead of out on bail, was more inclined to defend than to prosecute and showed an extraordinary desire to incriminate either the British Vice-Consul or the South African League for what he termed contempt of court in connection with the publication of certain affidavits in the _Star_. '
- They make him express a vulgar scorn at Polonius which utterly degrades his gentility, and which no explanation can render palatable; they make him show contempt, and curl up the nose at Ophelias father, contempt in its very grossest and most hateful form; but they get applause by it: it is natural, people say; that is, the words are scornful, and the actor expresses scorn, and that they can judge of: but why so much scorn, and of that sort, they never think of asking.