Contempt

Definition: Contempt

Contempt

Noun

1. Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike.

2. A manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous.

3. Open disrespect for a person or thing.

4. A willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body.

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Date "contempt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Contempt \Con*tempt"\, noun. [Latin expression contemptus, from contemnere: compare to Old French expression contempt. See Contemn.]. (references)

Satire

Dream Interpretation

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Synonyms: Contempt

Contempt

Verb: despise, contemn, scorn, disdain, feel contempt for, view with a scornful eye; disregard, slight, not mind; pass by; (neglect).

Noun: contempt, disdain, scorn, sovereign contempt; despisal, despiciency; despisement; vilipendency, contumely; slight, sneer, spurn, by-word; despect.

Look down upon; hold cheap, hold in contempt, hold in disrespect; think nothing of, think small beer of; make light of; underestimate; esteem slightly, esteem of small or no account; take no account of, care nothing for; set no store by; not care a straw, sneeze at; (unimportance); set at naught, laugh in one's sleeve, laugh up one's sleeve, snap one;s fingers at, shrug one's shoulders, turn up one's nose at, pooh-pooh, "damn with faint praise"; whistle at, sneer at; curl up one's lip, toss the head, traiter de haut enbas; laugh at; (be disrespectful).

Contemptuousness; Adjective: scornful eye; smile of contempt; derision; (disrespect). despisedness.

Courage

Noun: courage, bravery, valor; resoluteness, boldness; Adjective: spirit, daring, gallantry, intrepidity; contempt of danger, defiance of danger; derring-do; audacity; rashness; dash; defiance; confidence, self-reliance.

Disagreement

Adverb: in defiance, in contempt,in spite of; discordantly; Adjective: a tort et a travers.

Ridicule

Scorn, contempt.

Unimportance

Poor, paltry, pitiful; contemptible; (contempt); sorry, mean, meager, shabby, miserable, wretched, vile, scrubby, scrannel, weedy, scurvy, putid, beggarly, worthless, twopennyhalfpenny, cheap, trashy, catchpenny, gimcrack, trumpery; one-horse. not worth the pains, not worth while, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not worth a thought, not worth a curse, not worth a straw; Noun: beneath notice, unworthy of notice, beneath regard, unworthy of regard, beneath consideration, unworthy of consideration; de lana caprina; vain; (useless).

Crosswords: Contempt

Also a contempt for humanity, an inability to love or be loved, insatiable ambition - and talent (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

Mr. Reede, one more word out of you, and I will hold you in contempt! (Liar Liar; writing credit: Paul Guay; Stephen Mazur)

And it was the revulsion and the contempt that I saw in his face (Klute; writing credit: Andy Lewis; Dave Lewis)

You can laugh, but I have witnessed a millennium of treachery and oppression from the males of the species, and I have nothing but contempt for the whole libidinous lot of them (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Scorn and defiance, slight regard, contempt and any thing that may not misbecome the mighty sender, doth he prize you at. Thus says my king (Henry V; writing credit: Kenneth Branagh; William Shakespeare)

Familiarity breeds contempt; and children. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Nothing But Contempt (1990)

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Books

• Contempt (New York Review Book, No 7) (reference)

• Contempt For Court (reference)

• Contempt of Court (reference)

• Contempt of Court: The Turn-Of-The-Century Lynching That Launched 100 Years of Federalism (reference)

• Degrees of Retribution: A Novel of Contempt (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Contempt - Criterion Collection (reference)

• Contempt (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Consider It Contempt (reference)

• Contempt (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Passmore Williamson, in Moyamensing Prison for alledged contempt of court. Credit: Library of Congress.

H.J. Sargents Comedy Company (organization no. 4) in Dion Boucicault's farcical comedy, "Contempt of court". Credit: Library of Congress.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt ... Credit: Library of Congress.

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It went to the extreme length of directly opposing the "brutally destructive" tendency of Communism, and of proclaiming its supreme and impartial contempt of all class struggles. (reference)

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After what it had calculated to ten significant decimal places as being the precise length of pause most likely to convey a general contempt for all things mattressy, the robot continued to walk round in tight circles

Was this contempt or respect

Mr Dedalus gave a snort of contempt.

And in the tractor man there grows the contempt that comes only to a stranger who has little understanding and no relation

I expressed my uneasiness at his giving me so often the appellation of Yahoo, an odious animal for which I had so utter a hatred and contempt.

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Civil Liberties

Seychelles

In 2000 the Government had sued Regar's editor and publisher for contempt for failing to turn over a letter. (references)

Zambia

Failure to cooperate with a tribunal may result in charges of contempt punishable by up to 6 months in jail. (references)

Canada

The Human Rights Act also prohibits repeated communications by telephone that expose a person or group to hatred or contempt. (references)

Economic History

Japan

In addition, the courts lack contempt powers to compel a witness to testify or a party to comply with an injunction, and timely temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions are very difficult to obtain. (references)

Human Rights

Zimbabwe

Hunzvi was found guilty of contempt of court and received a commuted 3-month prison sentence. (references)

Malaysia

Contempt of court charges also have restricted the ability of defendants and their attorneys to defend themselves. (references)

Worker Rights

Russia

The court has refused the plaintiffs' requests that the defendant be fined for contempt of court. (references)

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Son of contempt

My contempt

Contempt

Expressions using "contempt": beneath contempt ♦ bring into contempt ♦ civil contempt ♦ contempt of Congress ♦ contempt of court ♦ contempt of court order ♦ contempt of official orders ♦ contempt of the court ♦ criminal contempt ♦ fling smb. a look of contempt ♦ hold in contempt ♦ hold smb. in contempt ♦ showing contempt ♦ smile of contempt ♦ treat smb. with contempt. Additional references.

Ending with "contempt": self-contempt.

Albanian

përbuzje (despite, disdain, opprobrium, scorn, self-assumption), neverit (abhor, cloy, detest, disdain, disgust, repulse, scorn, sicken), neveris (abhor, cloy, detest, disdain, disgust, scorn, sicken), neveri (abhorrence, abomination, aversion, disdain, disgust, disrelish, distaste, execration, gorge, horror, loathing, nausea, odiousness, odium, recoil, repugnance, repulsion, revolt, scorn), mospërfillje (carelessness, coldness, disinterest, disregard, indifference, insouciance, neglect, negligence, nonchalance, slight, slur, snub). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قلة إحترام (disrespect), ‏تحقير (humbling, insult, pejorative), ‏عصيان (bawdiness, disobedience, insurgence, insurgency, rebel, rebellion, recalcitrance, revolt, riot), ‏خزي (discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, humiliation, ignominy, infamy, odium, opprobrium, shame), ‏إحتقار (abasement, hiss, scorn), ‏إزدراء (contumely, disdain, disfavor, disfavour, disrespect, pride, scorn). (various references)

Bulgarian 

неуважение (disrespect, irreverence), презрение (despite, disdain, execration, scorn). (various references)

Chinese 

輕視 (contemptuous, despise, scorn, scornful), �"�视 (Disdainful). (various references)

Czech

pohrdání (disdain, disregard, scorn), opovržení (abhorrence, abomination, despite, disdain, scorn). (various references)

Danish

foragt. (various references)

Dutch

verachting, schamperheid, minachting. (various references)

Esperanto

malestimo. (various references)

Farsi 

تحقیر (Diminution, Disdain, Humility, Letdown, Scorn, Slight), خفت (Disgrace, Noose, Opprobrium), خواری (Ignominy), اهانت (Baffle, Disdain, Disrespect, Impertinence, Insolence, Offense). (various references)

Finnish

ylenkatse (scorn), halveksiminen (disdain, disrespect). (various references)

French

mépris (contumely), dédain. (various references)

German

verachtung (abhorrence, despite, disdain, scorn, scornfulness). (various references)

Greek 

περιφρόνηση (contumely, defiance, scorn). (various references)

Hebrew 

זלזול (derision, disparagement, disregard, disrespect, flippancy, irreverence, negligence, scorn), בוז (disdain, disgrace, shame, sneer), בזיון (disgrace, ignominy, shame), בזוי (abasement, abashment, abject, contemptible, cursed, deprecation, despicable, despised, despising, ignominius, measly, menial, pitiful, vile), � אצ�" (abuse, blasphemy, swearword). (various references)

Hungarian

megvetés (despite, disdain, flout, loathing, misprision, scorn, spurn), lenézés (disdain, disparagement, negligence), semmibe vevés (disregard). (various references)

Indonesian

sikap sombong, menghina (debase, deride, derogatory, humiliate, insult, misprize, opprobrious, taunt), jijik (abhorrent, antipathetic, detestable, detesting, loathing, loathsome, repugnant). (various references)

Italian

sprezzo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

軽侮 (scorn), 侮辱 (insult, slight), 侮�"� (disdain, scorn, slight). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

べっし (another messenger, derision, enclosure, slight, special messenger), ぶべつ (disdain, scorn, slight), ぶま�" (insult, offense), ぶじょく (insult, slight), いやしみ, あなどり (scorn), けいぶ (neck, police inspector, scorn). (various references)

Korean 

경멸. (various references)

Manx

faghid (derision, distain, insult, mockery, ridicule, scorn, sneer). (various references)

Norwegian

forakt. (various references)

Papiamen

menospresio, despresio. (various references)

Pig Latin

ontemptcay.(various references)

Portuguese

desprezo (disdain, disregard, pish, scorn). (various references)

Romanian

ruşine (abashment, abomination, bashfulness, blot, confusion, disgrace, infamy, reproach, scandal, shame, shyness, stain), oprobriu (opprobrium, scorn), nesupunere (disobedience, insubordination, non-compliance), neascultare (contumacy, disobedience, insubordination, obstreperousness), dispreţ (despite, disdain, disregard, flout, haughtiness, odium, scorn, spurn). (various references)

Russian 

неуважение (disrespect, impiety). (various references)

Scottish

tarcuis (also talcuis, reproach), tailceas, t� ir (disgrace, get, reproach), suarachas, dimbrigh, dìmeas (depreciation, scorn), dìbrigh, dimbrigh. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prezir (disdain, scorn, spurn), nepoštovanje vlasti. (various references)

Spanish

desprecio (oblivion), menosprecio (despite, disparagement, scorn, scornfulness, underestimation). (various references)

Swedish

förakt (disdain, disregard, scorn), ringaktning (despise, disdain, disrespect, slight). (various references)

Turkish

yüz karası (black sheep, crime, ignominy, odium, offscourings, reproach, scandal), nefret (abhorrence, abomination, animosity, animus, antipathy, aversion, despite, detestation, disgust, dislike, distaste, down, enmity, execration, hate, hatred, horror, loathing, miso-, odiousness, odium, repugnance, repulsion), mahkemeye itaatsizlik (contempt of court), küçümseme (contemptibility, contemptuousness, disdain, scoff, scorn, setdown, underestimation), iğrenme (abhorrence, abomination, detestation, disgust, execration, hate, loathing, nausea, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion), hor görme (despising, insult, look down on, scorn, underestimating, underrating), hakaret (affront, contumely, cuss word, defamation, epithet, hotfoot, indignity, insult, invective, opprobrium, outrage, revilement, slap, slap in the face, slight, slur, snub), ayıp (attaint, blot, blotch, brand, disgrace, disgraceful, dishonor, dishonour, failing, indecorous, indecorum, inglorious, nasty, obscenities, odium, opprobrious, reproach, reproachful, shame, shame on you, shameful, slur, spot, unmannerly, what a shame), aşağılama (abasement, contemptuousness, disparagement, humiliation, insolence, insult, mortification, opprobrium). (various references)

Ukrainian

зневага (disdain, disparagement, indignity, neglect, raspberry, spurn), презирство (scorn). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự khinh rẻ (misprision), sự coi thường (defiance, profanation, slight, undervaluation), sự coi khinh (depreciation), sự bỉ. (various references)

Welsh

diystyrwch (disdain, scorn), dirmyg (scorn), dibristod (depreciation). (various references)

aspernatio, aspernationem, contemptio, contemptu, contemptui, contemptum, contemptus, fastidium. (various references)

tarôidîti. (various references)

forhognis. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "contempt": contemptibilities, contemptibility, contemptible, contemptibleness, contemptiblenesses, contemptibly, contempts, contemptuous, contemptuously, contemptuousness, contemptuousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Contempt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: comtempt, conempt, conptempt, contampt, contemp, contemptr, contemptu, contempy, contemt, cuntempt, cuntmeat, Fontmeta. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: coempt, potent, potmen.

-3 letters: cento, comet, compt, comte, conte, copen, monte, motet, motte, netop, octet, petto, ponce, tempo, tempt, totem.

-4 letters: cent, come, comp, cone, cope, cote, meno, mope, mote, mott, nett, nome, nope, note, omen, once, open, pent, peon, poem, poet, pome, pone, temp, tent, tome, tone, tope, tote.

-5 letters: cep, con, cop.

+1 letter: competent, contempts.

+3 letters: compartment, competently, competition, comportment, contemplate, contretemps, incompetent.

+4 letters: compartments, competitions, comportments, contemplated, contemplates, contemplator, contemptible, contemptibly, contemptuous, incompetents, outcompeting, outplacement, streptomycin.

+5 letters: compartmental, compartmented, contemplating, contemplation, contemplative, contemplators, incompetently, noncompetitor, omnicompetent, onomatopoetic, outplacements, pneumatolytic, precommitment, protectionism, recomputation, streptomycins, uncompetitive.