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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Lapling :: Lapling (n.) One who has been fondled to excess; one fond of ease and sensual delights; -- a term of contempt.
Squarish :: Square-toes (n.) A precise person; -- used contemptuously or jocularly.
Volow :: Volow (v. t.) To baptize; -- used in contempt by the Reformers.
Rhymer :: Rhymer (n.) One who makes rhymes; a versifier; -- generally in contempt; a poor poet; a poetaster.
Sneer :: Sneer (v. i.) To inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively.
Kit :: Kit (m.) A group of separate parts, things, or individuals; -- used with whole, and generally contemptuously; as, the whole kit of them..
Mock :: Mock (v. t.) To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry..
Teague :: Teague (n.) An Irishman; -- a term used in contempt.
Fig :: Fig (n.) The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; -- used in scorn or contempt..
Hoot :: Hoot (v. t.) To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.
Jade :: Jade (v. t.) To make ridiculous and contemptible.
Smile :: Smile (v. i.) A somewhat similar expression of countenance, indicative of satisfaction combined with malevolent feelings, as contempt, scorn, etc; as, a scornful smile..
Pettitoes :: Pettitoes (n. pl.) The toes or feet of a pig, -- often used as food; sometimes, in contempt, the human feet..
Profanation :: Profanation (v. t.) The act of violating sacred things, or of treating them with contempt or irreverence; irreverent or too familiar treatment or use of what is sacred; desecration; as, the profanation of the Sabbath; the profanation of a sanctuary; the profanation of the name of God..
Mockery :: Mockery (n.) Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous merriment; derision; ridicule.
Attach :: Attach (v. t.) To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4..
Exploder :: Exploder (n.) One who rejects an opinion or scheme with open contempt.
Cub :: Cub (v. t. & i.) To bring forth; -- said of animals, or in contempt, of persons..
Contempt :: 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..
Shorling :: Shorling (n.) A person who is shorn; a shaveling; hence, in contempt, a priest..
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