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UK
/kəntˈɛmpt/
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[ US /kənˈtɛmpt/ ]
[ US /kənˈtɛmpt/ ]
NOUN
- a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous
- a willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body
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lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary
he was held in contempt - open disrespect for a person or thing
How To Use contempt In A Sentence
- And on the need for contempt powers, he recounted how officials at times refused to obey the orders.
- Ms. Miller's imprisonment for civil contempt of court was less a perfect storm — to use one of the press 'hoarier clichés to characterize a grim convergence of unpleasant events — as it was a brownout, a distressing midsummer sign that a full power outage is on its way. The Great D.C. Plame-Out, Or: Novak, Lord of the Journo-Flies
- Frederick, a bisexual misanthrope in a childless, political marriage, was a lapsed Calvinist who held all religions in contempt.
- Even where, for example in an unfair dismissal case, the employment tribunal makes an order that the employee be re-employed by the employer in one way or another, if the employer fails to do so there is no contempt of court.
- I am quite breathless with excitement, or possibly contempt. Times, Sunday Times
- What a suasory example it is for those, who through some freak of fortune, being enabled to shake off the dust of honest toil and industry, are very ready to look downward with contempt upon the rank they have just left. Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense
- Chiengmai; but it was curious, even amusing, to observe the serene contempt with which the "interlopers" were received by the rival incumbents of the royal gynecium, -- especially the Laotian women, who are of a finer type and much handsomer than their Siamese sisters. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok
- At the same time, if moral guidance is itself morally repugnant, then self-contempt is equally as abhorrent.
- Of course the 'nester' or 'punkin roller,' as we contemptuously called the small farmer, began sifting in here and there in spite of our guns, but he was only a mosquito bite in comparison with the trouble which our cow-punchers stirred up. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West
- Lastly, the hatred and contempt of the past two millennia add a formidable barrier to authentic communication.
