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Sentence count:262+20Posted:2017-01-19Updated:2020-07-24
Antonym: esteemhonorrespectSimilar words: contemplatecontemporarycontretempstemptattemptcaveat emptorcontentcontestMeaning: [kən'tempt]  n. 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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211. In contrast to the well-spoken woman in red, the attendants were beneath Jinju. s contempt.
212. The judge found them to be in contempt and committed each to prison for a term of four months.
213. Their treatment of religion shows no dispassionate analysis, but a virulent contempt which can only be termed prejudice.
214. Enhancing that contempt is the effort of feminists to emasculate the political order itself.
215. Pentheus laughed mockingly as he looked him over and then ordered him with contempt out of his sight.
216. It was the only way to save the Union,(http://sentencedict.com/contempt.html) to save it from contempt fines and then from bankruptcy.
217. It was this kind of personal therapy that fortified Ocker Tyron's private contempt for the human race.
218. Within the familiarity of marriage there are many subtle ways of showing anger, contempt or cruelty.
219. How could she have let herself be used by a man who held her in contempt?
220. Masters of leftovers, all these fellows: why do we view them with contempt, not admiration?
221. The pure, hot contempt I now felt for him warmed me.
222. Judge Geoffrey Kilfoil ordered his arrest and jailed him for 14 days for contempt of court.
223. His humiliation and fear were washed away by a tide of anger, at this open display of contempt.
224. Presumably they imagined their confidences led him to regard them with disgust or pity or contempt.
225. I could read faces too well not to be anxious: mockery, misconception, contempt, greed.
226. Opposition forces claim past practice as the basis for treating women with contempt.
227. It also ensures that omissions are not made simply because you have dictated the letter so often that familiarity has bred contempt.
228. A refusal to answer questions for example, could, in the absence of reasonable excuse, amount to contempt of court.
229. Her article in the Mail on Sunday was seriously prejudicial to the burglary charge but it was not a contempt.
230. Such total contempt for due process of law demands serious sanctions.
231. He showed his world his contempt for the job by doing it very badly.
232. My story was met with a mixture of disbelief and contempt.
233. Nor can they be found to be in contempt of court in relation to words spoken in the course of proceedings in Parliament.
234. The notice also informs the contemnor of his right to apply to the court to purge his contempt and ask for release.
235. His discomfort, his near contempt for the give-and-take of promotion is as naked as his shaven head.
236. Members of political groups went on brief raids into its ranks, and returned with little except contempt for its prospects.
237. He later admitted to having stage-managed the attack and was sued for contempt of court.
238. Accordingly the House rejected the committee's recommendations and ruled that the issuing of the libel writ was not a contempt.
239. The facts made the contempt he had felt for her, six years ago at any rate, even more understandable.
240. The fifteen girls across the bar turned their eyes on him with identical expressions of bland, fathomless contempt.
More similar words: contemplatecontemporarycontretempstemptattemptcaveat emptorcontentcontestcontextcontendcontestedcontentioncontentiousa bone of contentioncontentmentdiscontentmentemptyexemptpreemptpre-empton the contrarytemperatemplepreemptiveexempt fromtempuratemporaltemporarytemperaturetempestuous
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