Antonym: esteem, honor, respect. Similar words: contemplate, contemporary, contretemps, tempt, attempt, caveat emptor, content, contest. Meaning: [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.
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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91. Jimmy has nothing but contempt for his boss.
92. He also had a rank contempt for Desmond Morton.
93. Wrongs are often forgiven; contempt never. Lord Chesterfield 
94. Paperback publishing was considered beneath contempt.
95. The disorder, the whisperings, the giggles,(Sentencedict.com ) the open contempt!
96. This contempt for others is a denial of humanity.
97. Contempt proceedings were brought for failure to comply.
98. But, happily, not everybody treats kids with contempt.
99. Non-cooperation is treated as contempt of court.
100. For them, familiarity has bred contempt.
101. His voice was pregnant with contempt.
102. The first is that familiarity breeds contempt.
103. Debs himself was arrested for contempt of court.
104. She remembered the contempt, the ice in his glance.
105. Leaving litter in the wilderness is beneath contempt.
106. And they all hold supply-side economics in contempt.
107. Seale was found guilty on sixteen counts of contempt and sentenced to four years imprisonment by the judge sitting without a jury.
108. When you tell her you're an estate agent, she tries to cover her contempt.
109. My clients say these things, perhaps, to belittle or show contempt for their local officers, who are their enemies.
110. Strauss alleged that this was an infringement of his absolute privilege of free speech and as such was a contempt of Parliament.
111. In addition, contempt has the singular advantage of providing moments of light relief within what is essentially a serious framework.
112. Anything would have been better than this ice-cold contempt that cut her to the bone.
113. Judge Mathes sentenced her first to a year and later to an additional three months in jail for contempt.
114. Squire and Ickes have expressed contempt for Mr Morris in earlier times.
115. Lucie's attitude to it was a mixture of contempt and childlike delight.
116. General Crook, who had died earlier that year, would surely have had contempt for the whole business.
117. Hence its rather lordly detachment, its contempt for superstition, and its obvious scepticism.
118. The prison hero is the one who most openly shows anger and contempt for the staff.
119. The House of Lords upheld the issuing of an injunction on the ground that the publication would have amounted to a contempt.
120. Having already displayed a contempt for civilized society, he or she can not be considered a part of it.
More similar words: contemplate, contemporary, contretemps, tempt, attempt, caveat emptor, content, contest, context, contend, contested, contention, contentious, a bone of contention, contentment, discontentment, empty, exempt, preempt, pre-empt, on the contrary, tempera, temple, preemptive, exempt from, tempura, temporal, temporary, temperature, tempestuous.