contempt
Roget category 930
6. Words relating to the sentient and moral› 6.4. Moral affections
›› 6.4.2. Moral sentiments
#930.
Contempt
noun
contempt,
disdain,
scorn,
sovereign contempt —
despisal†,
despiciency† —
despisement† —
vilipendency†,
contumely —
slight,
sneer,
spurn,
by-word —
despect†.
contemptuousness
etc.
adj. —
scornful eye —
smile of contempt —
derision
etc.
(disrespect)
929.
despisedness
[State of being despised].
verb
despise,
contemn,
scorn,
disdain,
feel contempt for,
view with a scornful eye —
disregard,
slight,
not mind —
pass by
etc.
(neglect)
460.
look down upon —
hold cheap,
hold in contempt,
hold in disrespect —
think nothing of,
think small beer of —
make light of —
underestimate
etc.
483 —
esteem slightly,
esteem of small or no account —
take no account of,
care nothing for —
set no store by —
not care a straw,
sneeze at
etc.
(unimportance)
643 —
set at naught,
laugh in one's sleeve,
laugh up one's sleeve,
snap one's fingers at,
shrug one's shoulders,
turn up one's nose at,
pooh-pooh,
damn with faint praise"
[Pope];
whistle at,
sneer at —
curl up one's lip,
toss the head,
traiter de haut enbas [Fr.] —
laugh at
etc.
(be disrespectful)
929.
point the finger of scorn,
hold up to scorn,
laugh to scorn —
scout,
hoot,
flout,
hiss,
scoff at.
turn one's back upon,
turn a cold shoulder upon —
tread upon,
trample upon,
trample under foot —
spurn,
kick —
fling to the winds
etc.
(repudiate)
610 —
send away with a flea in the ear.
adjective
contemptuous —
disdainful,
scornful —
withering,
contumelious,
supercilious,
cynical,
haughty,
bumptious,
cavalier —
derisive.
contemptible,
despicable —
pitiable —
pitiful
etc.
(unimportant)
643 —
despised
etc.
v. —
downtrodden —
unenvied†.
unrespectable
(unworthy)
874.
adverb
contemptuously
etc.
adj..
interjection
a fig for
etc.
(unimportant)
643 —
bah!,
never mind!,
away with!,
hang it!,
fiddlededee!,
phrase
a dismal universal hiss, the sound of public a dismal universal hiss, the sound of public scorn"
[Paradise Lost];
I had rather be a dog and bay the moon than such a I had rather be a dog and bay the moon than such a Roman"
[Julius Caesar].
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