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.
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121. They are considered beneath contempt in the system, but at Grendon everyone has equal status.
122. I feel nothing but contempt for people who are obsessed with fast cars and designer clothes.
123. A state district judge held Lenhart in contempt, when she refused to identify the grand jurors who spoke to her.
124. Many who disliked him are beginning to feel the same contempt and venom they felt for Baroness Bonkers.
125. He prospered in this country, plying a uniquely leisure-class trade, and then expressed petty contempt for his hosts.
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126. At first she could think of nothing to say, because there was nothing that would adequately express her contempt.
127. The federal courts would issue injunctions, impose contempt, etc., but the miners kept walking out.
128. It had little relevance to their everyday concerns and displayed contempt for the Yiddish language-their mother tongue.
129. If he fails to appear, he will be in contempt of tribal law, Foster said.
130. But lawyers, investigators and police have only contempt for the penal code, in force since Jan. 1.
131. Mitterrand and Lecanuet portrayed the General's refusal to campaign as contempt for the democratic process.
132. But he was excluded from most official events, for which he had always shown nothing but the deepest contempt.
133. In the piece he confessed that he had once been a Marxist, but now felt contempt for such thinking.
134. McSpadden ruled that Lenhart had no such privilege, held her in contempt of court and ordered her jailed.
135. Visiting the supermarket might have been a transforming moment for Alexei, a way of easing his contempt and shattering his paralysis.
136. So there were parts of me that watched the naming ceremony for the new catapult with some amusement, even contempt.
137. He had a deep contempt for the bureaucratic mind and took particular delight in circumventing bureaucratic obstruction.
138. If he fails to attend a second time the judge has power to commit him to prison for contempt of court.
139. Sabine did her best not to flinch from the contempt in madame's voice as well as the implications of what she was saying.
140. He'd always admired his superior and never more so than when a victim of his contempt.
141. I will only say that proceedings should be brought before the court by way of appeal in contempt matters only in exceptional cases.
142. But the court subsequently found two specific breaches involving officers of the union and held the union guilty of contempt.
143. Despite the profit-making prospects in this it has been treated with utter contempt on the grounds that charity begins at home.
144. Because his mockery or contempt on top of everything else would devastate her.
145. I did not tell you lies but I do deserve your contempt.
146. Her contempt for danger is something I do not understand.
147. Much of his hatred and contempt of Bella must have stemmed from her involvement in Johnny's fall from grace.
148. He searched her eyes for signs of contempt and loathing, but all he could see was sympathy.
149. Unlike Lactantius, Augustine did not treat the scientific scholarship of the ancients with ignorant contempt.
150. Lastly, breach of such an undertaking or court order will amount to a contempt of court.
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.