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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241. He never tried to hide his contempt for those who were not as intelligent as him.
242. They were coined in a later age as terms of disapprobation, even contempt.
243. She treats him with contempt and when Miss Havisham tells her to play cards with him she says' With this boy!
244. Nelson watched him with no contempt, no outrage, no brotherly feeling.
245. Having won their votes from the gullible, as well as the dedicated, the republicans now show their utter contempt for democracy.
246. My right hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor-General will be dealing with the question of contempt.
247. There was no possibility of his being able to purge his contempt within a short time of his committal.
248. Classical philosophers refer to them with contempt, as peddlers of absolution for a modest fee.
249. Yet this was a man who felt nothing but contempt for her, who thought her no better than a thief.
250. That was what it was, but it hurt just the same, his open contempt of her.
251. Each House has a Committee of Privileges to which primafacie of breach of privilege or contempt of Parliament are referred.
252. Breach of these undertakings would place the parties in contempt of court.
253. He can treat Mr Flynt as a figure beneath contempt, and ignore him.
254. She was preparing to marry me and had applied for papers, but she treated me with contempt.
255. Our family was a wonderful nest of amiable contempt.
256. Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
257. Christopher'slistening face flamed at the contempt.
258. There the dwarf lay, snapping his fingers with gestures of defiance and contempt.
259. Allah loves and honors the warrior; the thief he holds in contempt.sentencedict.com
260. Ah Q had always had the greatest contempt for such people as little nuns.
261. Her final and ultimatum of contempt consisted in a very emphatic pronunciation of the word'shiftless ".
262. Underlying his writing is a contempt of the author for his audience.
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.