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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 contemptdespisal, despiciencydespisementvilipendency, contumelyslight, sneer, spurn, by-worddespect.
contemptuousness etc. adj. — scornful eyesmile of contemptderision etc. (disrespect) 929.
despisedness [State of being despised].

verb

despise, contemn, scorn, disdain, feel contempt for, view with a scornful eyedisregard, slight, not mindpass by etc. (neglect) 460.
look down uponhold cheap, hold in contempt, hold in disrespectthink nothing of, think small beer ofmake light ofunderestimate etc. 483esteem slightly, esteem of small or no accounttake no account of, care nothing forset no store bynot care a straw, sneeze at etc. (unimportance) 643set 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 atcurl 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 scornscout, hoot, flout, hiss, scoff at.
turn one's back upon, turn a cold shoulder upontread upon, trample upon, trample under footspurn, kickfling to the winds etc. (repudiate) 610send away with a flea in the ear.

adjective

contemptuousdisdainful, scornfulwithering, contumelious, supercilious, cynical, haughty, bumptious, cavalierderisive.
contemptible, despicablepitiablepitiful etc. (unimportant) 643despised etc. v. — downtroddenunenvied.
unrespectable (unworthy) 874.

adverb

contemptuously etc. adj..

interjection

a fig for etc. (unimportant) 643bah!, 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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