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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151. Tessel said nothing but looked down at them with contempt.
152. She would never allow him a reason to pity her again, to hold her in contempt.
153. Shortly after shooting them, Conroy displayed utter contempt for his two victims, the court heard.
154. The teachers were very old-fashioned, treating any new ideas with contempt and scorn.
155. With the specialist's contempt for the layman's ignorance,(Sentence dictionary) Rufus read accounts of the inquest in two newspapers.
156. She was surprised to find that she felt only contempt.
157. He had been present in court when sentence was passed and the fact of his contempt was never in issue.
158. Because he was literate and articulate, he showed a bitter contempt for the self-appointed intellectuals of the inter-war years.
159. Intimacy breeds contempt, but maybe we have gone too far.
160. And I felt resentful contempt of my own, for Sebastian and his deferential barber.
161. Ronald Reagan surrounded himself with swashbuckling Californian businessmen with ill-concealed contempt for the east-coast establishment.
162. The warmth of a moment ago that had so overwhelmed her had cooled to a more familiar glint of contempt.
163. Boylston found Sherrod in contempt and sentenced him to 179 days in jail, but then transferred the sentence to Holley.
164. She couldn't see his expression but it didn't take a fool to realise that distaste and contempt must lurk there.
165. To these people, whom they held in deeply justified contempt, both women paid ample lip-service.
166. The New York City officials were found in contempt of court for failing to find shelter quickly enough for needy families.
167. Of much greater practical significance, and by no means obsolete, is the power to punish for contempt.
168. She found Jen's contempt for politicians both bracing and worrying.
169. Integrity is vital but in all types of organisations including schools there are examples of thinly disguised contempt for customers and consumers.
170. The Contempt of Court Act 1991 spreads a wider net over everyone who reports or handles news.
171. Especially with a woman for whom he felt nothing but contempt.
172. The school board, stymied, asked the federal court for an exemption from contempt proceedings for not executing the court order.
173. I'd have scarcely thought it possible, but the lady in black found a look of even deeper contempt for me.
174. In each case the appellant has been found guilty of contempt of court and has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment.
175. The company won, and when McLaren failed to show up in court, he was jailed for contempt.
176. Disclosure of the material would put anyone who violated the order in contempt of court.
177. They must muddle through in a fog of grumble and contempt.
178. I see them every day and familiarity doesn't breed contempt so much as disgust in me.
179. Telemachus they treated with amused contempt as if he were a mere boy and quite beneath their notice.
180. Therefore, they argued, their contempt citations for interfering with the trial process were invalid.
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.