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Definition of contempt

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Contempt (n.) 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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Swaddling :: Swaddler (n.) A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist.

Foutra :: Foutra (n.) A fig; -- a word of contempt.

Story-teller :: Story-teller (n.) An historian; -- in contempt.

Noddle :: Noddle (n.) The head; -- used jocosely or contemptuously.

Faugh :: Faugh (interj.) An exclamation of contempt, disgust, or abhorrence..

Stitching :: Stitchery (n.) Needlework; -- in contempt.

Violation :: Violation (n.) An act of irreverence or desecration; profanation or contemptuous treatment of sacred things; as, the violation of a church..

Spalpeen :: Spalpeen (n.) A scamp; an Irish term for a good-for-nothing fellow; -- often used in good-humored contempt or ridicule.

Shame :: Shame (n.) Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonor; ignominy; derision; contempt.

Expose :: Expose (v. t.) To disclose the faults or reprehensible practices of; to lay open to general condemnation or contempt by making public the character or arts of; as, to expose a cheat, liar, or hypocrite..

Starn :: Starmonger (n.) A fortune teller; an astrologer; -- used in contempt.

Greaser :: Greaser (n.) A nickname sometimes applied in contempt to a Mexican of the lowest type.

Tun :: Tun (n.) A drunkard; -- so called humorously, or in contempt..

Defiance :: Defiance (n.) A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition to resist; contempt of opposition.

Prittle-prattle :: Prittle-prattle (n.) Empty talk; trifling loquacity; prattle; -- used in contempt or ridicule.

Medley :: Medley (n.) A mixture; a mingled and confused mass of ingredients, usually inharmonious; a jumble; a hodgepodge; -- often used contemptuously..

Imp :: Imp (n.) A young or inferior devil; a little, malignant spirit; a puny demon; a contemptible evil worker..

Pietistical :: Pietistical (a.) Of or pertaining to the Pietists; hence, in contempt, affectedly or demonstratively religious..

Sneer :: Sneer (v. i.) To inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively.

Spawn :: Spawn (v. t.) Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously.