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    contempt


    1. Despite the contempt of the little man, Travis was more than able for this kind of torture and had undergone it many times in the past


    2. and to be in this beach is our punishment for contempt ever


    3. Full of contempt - Even though this was initially directed toward God it led him to act contemptuously toward all others


    4. Why do they open the shop, then? Later, I spent some time with Alice and our cousin Niki but I couldn't avoid the usual boredom: These two are married with children, respectable persons in society; they don't even bother to conceal their contempt for me


    5. And here I face what I've been trying to ignore for so many years: The hatred and contempt of the others towards me


    6. “I don't understand what's the meaning of this all! Frankly, I can't understand why this woman lives! She goes to one place; she goes to another place; so, what? All this is nothing but nonsense for people who have no reason to live!” she concluded, full of contempt for old-maid Ivy


    7. Is it possible that Onesimus heard the stories of Paul, heard messages of God’s grace, mercy, and love, and heard his master speaking so highly of this Jesus, but didn’t see the reality in his life? Is it possible that Philemon was a phenomenal example of what Christianity is supposed to be, but when it came to his slaves he somehow treated them with contempt? Was Onesimus believing the words spoken, but having difficultly finding the reality of them?


    8. Miss Barns, if you continue in this manner, I shall hold you in contempt of this court


    9. Needless to say, and despite the threat of imminent penury, she could hardly contain her contempt for the men displayed before her


    10. Her back still to him and in a voice now dripping with contempt Naria angrily ordered,

    11. she could hardly contain her contempt for the men displayed before


    12. He makes no bones about his contempt for Jock Cascarino and his boys


    13. “Good morning Mandy,” he began, “and how have you been getting on with the chinaman and squaw?” he said with open contempt for the Livingsons


    14. The contempt on the faces of her


    15. Dubois was able to hide his contempt, but not


    16. Mackie, who looked up at him with a mixture of what Harry perceived to be mild contempt and incredulity


    17. surprise, she treated him to another look of contempt


    18. " Jim's face twitched, in contempt


    19. said one of them with a distinct air of contempt


    20. father or his mother with contempt

    21. meal,’ said Collette, with pity rather than contempt


    22. The Bishop and Cure snorted their contempt


    23. contempt of the risk


    24. of utter hatred and contempt on the face of the thief was


    25. examined both them and the heretic with contempt,


    26. Brice was aware that Coba had more than just contempt for those who were uninitiated in the Singularity


    27. He thus expected her to answer his proposition with contempt


    28. Ashes that will be looked upon with contempt or disgust


    29. "contempt" is " darone"


    30. word speaks of our contempt for the wicked, not their eternal conscious torment

    31. There are two emotions here, shame and contempt


    32. And it is the righteous that have the contempt emotion


    33. contempt, which proves that we (believers) will live forever and still feel


    34. Strong says both contempt (Daniel 12:2) and abhorrence


    35. " Contempt and abhorrence are the way others


    36. shame and contempt for them


    37. It is the contempt that is


    38. Tragus gazing at her, not with anger now, or lust, or even with contempt


    39. “Who is it?” the voice sounded full of contempt


    40. The ancient Egyptians, it is said, neglected foreign commerce, and the modem Chinese, it is known, hold it in the utmost contempt, and scarce deign to afford it the decent protection of the laws

    41. They looked at her with contempt


    42. He looked at her with a combination of contempt and love


    43. Some wrote of contempt for the Publicans, Blacks, Mulattos, and Latinos


    44. Then he looked back to the group realizing that he had been reminiscing out loud and said, “It’s like what we’re getting tonight, weather off of Lake Erie,” he finished quietly without acknowledging Martin who stared at him with contempt


    45. The hatred of usurpers, the love of the family of an ancient monarch, are in a great measure founded upon the contempt which men naturally have for the former, and upon their veneration for the latter


    46. She thought of the criticisms she’d held in her mind of those women who’d let such a thing happen to them, the silent contempt that was now her shame


    47. ” With a last look of contempt he moved on down the trench and we could hear him continuing to cause havoc everywhere he went


    48. He who never spoke ill of anyone or anything, had only contempt for these men


    49. It must, too, be unpleasant to him to observe, that the greater part of his students desert his lectures ; or perhaps, attend upon them with plain enough marks of neglect, contempt, and derision


    50. The slightest degree of knowledge and application will enable him to do this, without exposing himself to contempt or derision, by saying any thing that is really foolish, absurd, or ridiculous














































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    Synonyms for "contempt"

    contempt disrespect scorn despite disdain ignominy ridicule disgrace dishonour indignity stigma contumely derision loathing disregard slight abhorrence arrogance insolence impudence audacity

    "contempt" definitions

    lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike


    a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous


    open disrespect for a person or thing


    a willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body