contempt 的定义
- 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.
contempt 近义词
disdain, disrespect
state of disgrace
更多contempt例句
- 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.