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Definition of Contempt
1. Noun. Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike. "The despite in which outsiders were held is legendary"
Generic synonyms: Dislike
Derivative terms: Contemptuous, Disdain, Scorn
2. Noun. A manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous.
Generic synonyms: Discourtesy, Rudeness
Derivative terms: Contemptuous, Disrespect, Disrespect
3. Noun. Open disrespect for a person or thing.
Generic synonyms: Discourtesy, Disrespect
Specialized synonyms: Fleer, Leer, Sneer, Sneer
Derivative terms: Contemptuous, Scorn
4. Noun. A willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body.
Specialized synonyms: Contempt Of Congress, Contempt Of Court
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Definition of Contempt
1. n. The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
Definition of Contempt
1. Noun. The state of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn, disdain. ¹
2. Noun. The state of being despised or dishonored; disgrace. ¹
3. Noun. (legal) Open disrespect or willful disobedience of the authority of a court of law or legislative body. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Contempt
1. the feeling of one who views something as mean, vile, or worthless [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contempt
Literary usage of Contempt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David ( Hume (1898)
"X.—Of Respect and contempt. There now remains only to explain the passions of
... Let us begin with respect and contempt. In considering the qualities and ..."
2. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin (1913)
"SCORN and disdain can hardly be distinguished from contempt, excepting that ...
Nevertheless, extreme contempt, or as it is often called loathing contempt, ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"2, 18 La. 278; Municipality Jfo. 2 v. 2V. Orleans Cot. Press, 18 La. 224. In this
last case the court says, p. 227: The fact of contempt cannot be Inquired ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1894)
"It is familiarly known that a newspaper is guilty of " contempt" in publishing
... This form of "contempt of court" has taken root in our remotest colonies. ..."
5. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Edward Bouverie Pusey, William Benham (1909)
"CHAPTER XLI Of contempt of all temporal honour " MY Son, ... Lift up thine heart
to Me in heaven, and then the contempt of men upon earth will not make thee ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1911)
"Ann. 852, where, under similar cicumstances, the trial court was held to .
possess jurisdiction to punish for contempt But see Turner v. Scott, 5 Rand. ..."
7. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1907)
"Cases involving the right to review orders of the Federal courts in matters of
contempt have been so recently before this court that an extended discussion ..."