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contempt

/kuhn-tempt/US // kənˈtɛmpt //UK // (kənˈtɛmpt) //

蔑视,藐视,鄙视,藐视法庭

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
    • : the state of being despised; dishonor; disgrace.
    • : Law. willful disobedience to or open disrespect for the rules or orders of a court or legislative body.an act showing such disrespect.

Synonyms & Antonyms

noundisdain, disrespect

Examples

  • They are the poster children for evil at its core and as such, need to be treated with contempt.

  • Adult curfews are imposed, colors of clothing are not allowed, littering or being too loud in public could result in contempt of court.

  • In March, his attorney argued that MTS should be held in contempt for failing to comply with her subpoena and the city attorney’s office should be sanctioned for its failure to assist.

  • So let’s say you’re in a relationship with someone, and rather than being the contempt giver, you’re the contempt receiver.

  • You’d think it’d be better to have contempt for people you, you didn’t know.

  • “Internationally there has been a lot of horror and contempt for her actions, domestically very little,” he said.

  • Alastair Sim had jowls like melting candle wax, a snarl like a cornered cat and eyes cold with contempt.

  • Their pronouncements suggest that they hold those commitments in contempt.

  • Trierweiler claims that Hollande, a socialist, showed contempt for the poor, supposedly calling them “the toothless.”

  • The President and his party are making their contempt all too clear to white working-class voters.

  • It is then we make him our friend, which sets us above the envy and contempt of wicked men.

  • Her eyes were blazing with triumph, yet her lips curved with contempt at the attitude of her trembling father.

  • If he had cut her, he would have shown less contempt than in that stiff raising of the hat.

  • He threw into the last two words an indescribable sound of half-laughing contempt.

  • Lifted to the skies for an hour by popular adulation, he has been sunk into obscurity ever since by historic contempt.

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