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contempt
  1. (uncountable) The state or act of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn, disdain.
  2. The state of being despised or dishonored; disgrace.
  3. (law) Open disrespect or willful disobedience of the authority of a court of law or legislative body.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Professor Badia held great contempt for trophy hunters and rebuffed their efforts to hire his tracking skills.”
      “They then mocked his self-proclaimed kingship by bedecking him in royal apparel and treating him with contempt.”
      “I am eternally in a state of contempt for things I have done, doubt about those I am doing, and dread of those I have yet to undertake.”
contemner
  1. One who contemns, who displays contempt towards another.
  2. Examples:
    1. “So, disobedience alone will not make the alleged contemner liable for contempt.”
      “Judges are enjoined to extend to an alleged contemner the same rights accorded to an accused.”
      “From all of which Isabel gathered that Lord Warburton was a nobleman of the newest pattern, a reformer, a radical, a contemner of ancient ways.”
contemptive
  1. (linguistics) A word form expressing the negative attitude of the speaker.
contemptibleness
contemnor
  1. (law) A person held in contempt of court.
contemptibility
  1. The quality of being contemptible.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “But for such a young man, barely 25, Handcuff Babul had acquired a contemptibility far beyond his years.”
      “The ill outcome of this situation is contemptibility, isolation and hatred.”
      “The next powerful evocation of the contemptibility of colonial times in Onitsha takes place soon after Fintan and Maou's arrival in Nigeria, with irremediable consequences.”
contemptuousness
  1. The state of being contemptuous
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He looked through her with a contemptuousness such as she could not have imagined.”
      “His reaction is to confront John, who encouraged this evangelistic initiative, with the racist and contemptuousness of its approach.”
      “She muttered rather than spoke these few words, but with a contemptuousness of inflection that was most expressive.”
contemptibilities
contemptives
  1. plural of contemptive
contemnors
  1. plural of contemnor
contemners
  1. plural of contemner
contempts
  1. plural of contempt
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Yes, but the Supreme Court in its summary jurisdiction, which is a statutory jurisdiction, has no power to punish contempts of court.”
      “When defendant committed the contempts of court at issue here, he was not at the time incarcerated in a penal or reformatory institution and he was not an escapee.”
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