Words and phrases that have a meaning related to contempt: (220 results)
Often used in the same context:
disdain, disrespect, distain, arrogance, discourtesy, defiance, reverence, disgust, disloyalty, hostility, disregard, vindictiveness, haughtiness, scorn, indifference, callousness, reprimand, insubordination, condescension, dishonesty, summons, censure, impatience, incompetency, hypocrisy, treason, indignation, insensitivity, adamance, servility, decency, distaste, displeasure, insolence, affection, vileness, partiality, deference, admiration, disrepute, churlishness, disingenuousness, hatred, contemnor, cowardice, disobedience, rebuke, violation, loathing, misfeasance, anger, ingratitude, gutlessness, prejudice, tactlessness, revulsion, willful neglect, remorse, outrage, animus, exasperation, unreasonableness, rudeness, resentment, solicitousness, impertinence, complicity, cruelty, shamelessness, sedition, abhorrence, ignorance, lenience, castigation, perjurer, petulance, odium, empathy, ridicule, criminal negligence, compassion, insincerity, incompetence, indignance, recalcitrance, boorishness, decorum, submissiveness, humility, sympathy, perfidy, effrontery, imperiousness, admonishment, contrition, spitefulness, adoration, noncompliance, impoliteness, obstinance, disaffection, criminal, derision, distrust, incredulity, dismay, astonishment, cynicism, disfavour, consternation, detestation, chagrin, admiralty, antidumping, appellate, mandamus, corpus, dumping, possessory, civil, disciplinary, interlocutory, judicial, adjudicative, appeal, consistorial, countervailing, prerogative, aforesaid, arrest, ctiminal
More specific:
contempt of congress, contempt of court, leer, sneer, sneering
Appears in the definition of:
., banausic, barrack, beggarly, bemock, bird, boo, bronx cheer, contemptible, contemptuous, contumacy, deride, derision, derisive, desecrated, despicable, despised, detested, disdain, disdainful, disesteem, disrespect, flout, flouter, freeze off, gibe, gibelike, hated, hiss, hoot, insulting, jeer, jeerer, jeering, leer, mean, mock, mocker, mockery, mocking, nervy, obstruction of justice, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poetiser, poetizer, pooh-pooh, profaneness, raspberry, razzing, reject, retreated, rhymer, rhymester, ridicule, scoff, scoffer, scoffing, scorn, scorned, scorner, scornful, sneer, sneerer, sneering, snide, snort, snorter, spit, spit out, spurn, spurner, subpoena, subpoena ad testificandum, supercilious, swinish, taunting, turn down, unenforced, unlettered, unutterable, versifier
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— Adjectives for contempt: great, utter, such, profound, utmost, supreme, much, open, sovereign, silent, greatest, more...
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