Definition of Contempt

1. Noun. Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike. "The despite in which outsiders were held is legendary"

Exact synonyms: Despite, Disdain, Scorn
Generic synonyms: Dislike
Derivative terms: Contemptuous, Disdain, Scorn

2. Noun. A manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous.
Exact synonyms: Disrespect
Generic synonyms: Discourtesy, Rudeness
Derivative terms: Contemptuous, Disrespect, Disrespect

3. Noun. Open disrespect for a person or thing.
Exact synonyms: Scorn
Generic synonyms: Discourtesy, Disrespect
Specialized synonyms: Fleer, Leer, Sneer, Sneer
Derivative terms: Contemptuous, Scorn

4. Noun. A willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body.
Generic synonyms: Disobedience, Noncompliance
Specialized synonyms: Contempt Of Congress, Contempt Of Court
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law

Definition of Contempt

1. n. The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.

Definition of Contempt

1. Noun. The state of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn, disdain. ¹

2. Noun. The state of being despised or dishonored; disgrace. ¹

3. Noun. (legal) Open disrespect or willful disobedience of the authority of a court of law or legislative body. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Contempt

1. the feeling of one who views something as mean, vile, or worthless [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Contempt

contemporaneousness
contemporaries
contemporarily
contemporariness
contemporary
contemporary world
contemporisation
contemporisations
contemporise
contemporization
contemporizations
contemporize
contemporized
contemporizes
contemporizing
contempt (current term)
contempt of Congress
contempt of Parliament
contempt of court
contemptibilities
contemptibility
contemptible
contemptibleness
contemptibly
contempts
contemptuous
contemptuously
contemptuousness
contend
contended

Literary usage of Contempt

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David ( Hume (1898)
"X.—Of Respect and contempt. There now remains only to explain the passions of ... Let us begin with respect and contempt. In considering the qualities and ..."

2. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin (1913)
"SCORN and disdain can hardly be distinguished from contempt, excepting that ... Nevertheless, extreme contempt, or as it is often called loathing contempt, ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"2, 18 La. 278; Municipality Jfo. 2 v. 2V. Orleans Cot. Press, 18 La. 224. In this last case the court says, p. 227: The fact of contempt cannot be Inquired ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1894)
"It is familiarly known that a newspaper is guilty of " contempt" in publishing ... This form of "contempt of court" has taken root in our remotest colonies. ..."

5. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Edward Bouverie Pusey, William Benham (1909)
"CHAPTER XLI Of contempt of all temporal honour " MY Son, ... Lift up thine heart to Me in heaven, and then the contempt of men upon earth will not make thee ..."

6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1911)
"Ann. 852, where, under similar cicumstances, the trial court was held to . possess jurisdiction to punish for contempt But see Turner v. Scott, 5 Rand. ..."

7. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1907)
"Cases involving the right to review orders of the Federal courts in matters of contempt have been so recently before this court that an extended discussion ..."

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