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contempt <a contempt; contempts> N (feelings & emotions)

contempt VB

contempt <a contempt; contempts> N

contempt VB

purging contempt LAW

self-contempt N PSYCH

contempt of court N LAW

contempt of court LAW

hold in contempt VB

regard with contempt VB

treat with contempt VB

treat with contempt or neglect VB

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They treat women with contempt -- like property, like a chess piece.
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She is annoyed not so much that she has lost her eye but at the insolent air of independence and contempt it had while looking back at her.
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The punishment for telling anyone about the summons is contempt of court, with a penalty of 8-9 months imprisonment.
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He reserved a particular contempt for the sentient doors, despising their blissful satisfaction with existence.
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Gossipy neighbors and shop vendors treat them with contempt, fellow tenants complaining that their (already noticeably dilapidated) tenement building has now become filthy.
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When massive factory ships of proven contempt arrive in our coastal waters, both the environment and local fisheries lose out.
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The rarity of major disasters tends to breed complacency and even a contempt for written instructions.
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The pervasive vulgarity renders the trick plot even less believable and justifies the contempt of those who dismiss all crime fiction as puerile.
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Under these circumstances a breach may result in a finding of contempt and any remedies for contempt.
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Individually they are probably good men, but they are a close corporation, with, it seems to me, a contempt for everyone outside their own clan.
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