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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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Mock :: Mock (v. i.) To make sport contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or jeering manner.

Bloat :: Bloat (n.) A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow..

Squarish :: Square-toes (n.) A precise person; -- used contemptuously or jocularly.

Sir :: Sir (n.) An English rendering of the LAtin Dominus, the academical title of a bachelor of arts; -- formerly colloquially, and sometimes contemptuously, applied to the clergy..

Affront :: Affront (n.) Contemptuous or rude treatment which excites or justifies resentment; marked disrespect; a purposed indignity; insult.

Spurn :: Spurn (v. t.) To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with contempt.

Pitiful :: Pitiful (a.) To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable.

Hissing :: Hissing (n.) The occasion of contempt; the object of scorn and derision.

Burlesque :: Burlesque (a.) Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical..

Sneer :: Sneer (v. i.) To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression..

Jerk :: Jerk (v. i.) To flout with contempt.

Scoff :: Scoff (n.) Derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach..

Shaveling :: Shaveling (n.) A man shaved; hence, a monk, or other religious; -- used in contempt..

Clap :: Clap (v. t.) To express contempt or derision.

Curtain :: Curtain (n.) A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt.

Frump :: Frump (n.) A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a gibe or flout.

Fleer :: Fleer () To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe; as, to fleer and flout..

Tripe :: Tripe (n.) The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural..

Bantling :: Bantling (n.) A young or small child; an infant. [Slightly contemptuous or depreciatory..

Volow :: Volow (v. t.) To baptize; -- used in contempt by the Reformers.