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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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Scrub :: Scrub (a.) Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.

Detest :: Detest (v. t.) To hate intensely; to abhor; to abominate; to loathe; as, we detest what is contemptible or evil..

Criticaster :: Criticaster (n.) A contemptible or vicious critic.

Despite :: Despite (n.) An act of malice, hatred, or defiance; contemptuous defiance; a deed of contempt..

Derision :: Derision (n.) The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule..

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

Snuff :: Snuff (v. i.) To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offense..

Despise :: Despise (v. t.) To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of.

Putty-faced :: Putty-faced (a.) White-faced; -- used contemptuously.

Hide :: Hide (n.) The human skin; -- so called in contempt.

Whigling :: Whigling (n.) A petty or inferior Whig; -- used in contempt.

Poltroon :: Poltroon (a.) Base; vile; contemptible; cowardly.

Mock :: Mock (v. t.) To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry..

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..

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

Geck :: Geck (n.) Scorn, derision, or contempt..

Counterjumper :: Counterjumper (n.) A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemptuously.

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

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

Piece :: Piece (n.) An individual; -- applied to a person as being of a certain nature or quality; often, but not always, used slightingly or in contempt..