Definition of Contempt

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Contempt

The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.

The state of being despised; disgrace; shame.

An act or expression denoting contempt.

Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the respect due to its authority.

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Contempt Quotations

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
Winston Churchill

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark Twain

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
Kahlil Gibran

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
William Shakespeare

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
Charles de Gaulle

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
Niccolo Machiavelli

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
Plutarch

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
John Steinbeck

Contempt Translations

contempt in Danish is foragt
contempt in Dutch is verachting, minachting, schamperheid
contempt in German is Verachtung
contempt in Italian is vilipendi
contempt in Latin is contemptio, aspernatio
contempt in Norwegian is forakt
contempt in Spanish is menosprecio, desprecio

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