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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181. If their paths crossed Bryony usually ignored her, but with contempt, as if she was behaving stupidly.
182. Those minded to take reprisals against witnesses on account of the evidence that they have given can also be punished for contempt.
183. Several unions were held to be in contempt, were fined and had their assets sequestrated.
184. We should not allow that, because that would be a contempt of democracy.
185. Perhaps familiarity breeds contempt - among teachers as well as children.
186. Such works demean religious believers and hold up their convictions to contempt.
187. Her dark eyes regarded her father and me with open contempt.
188. If he issues the injunction and Mr Farquharson ignores it,(www.Sentencedict.com) he could be jailed for up to two years for contempt.
189. It should also inform him of his right to apply to the court to purge his contempt.
190. Michael looked her up and down, his lips curling with contempt.
191. If the debtor refuses to attend for oral examination he is liable to be committed to prison for contempt of court.
192. Why do they express contempt for any correspondence theories of epistemology that involve attentive engagement with the real?
193. For example, it is usually contempt to publish a story which causes the discharge of a jury in mid-trial.
194. Earlier this week, Sherrod pleaded no contest to contempt of court for fleeing Holley.
195. Publication of false reports of Parliamentary proceedings and premature disclosure of committee proceedings have both constituted contempt.
196. Maybe Lucenzo had good reason to treat her with contempt.
197. Women must protect each other at all costs from the onslaught of the male, particularly from their contempt.
198. Fawehinmi's conviction on the contempt of court charge was quashed by the appeal court in July.
199. I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State. Sophocles
200. That would have been anathema to Taylor and earned his contempt.
201. He heard himself chuckling, but the sound was rich with contempt and menace.
202. The United States has usually been an exception to the rule that familiarity breeds contempt.
203. Although he later affected contempt for the poor, Walters had grown up the son of a working-class Leicestershire Communist.
204. A major difficulty with such a test is that familiarity may breed tolerance rather than contempt.
205. Nevertheless they were held to be in contempt but, the strike having collapsed, no penalty was imposed.
206. The contempt for Daley was pouring down from all directions.
207. As imperial portraits attracted faith, so images of emperors who had betrayed their subjects' trust were treated with contempt.
208. Merchants were relegated to the bottom of the edifice in line with a long-standing Confucian contempt for money-making and commercial activities.
209. Yet these can be overcome if people unite to show their contempt for the cruel, vicious minority.
210. The law of contempt does not apply to reinforce the decisions of administrative tribunals.
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.