Results for contempt

Definitions of contempt:

part of speech: noun

Scorn: disgrace: ( law) disobedience of the rules of a court.

part of speech: noun

The act of despising; the act of viewing or treating as utterly mean, vile, and worthless; disobedience or disrespect to a court, or to a constituted authority; disgrace; shame.

part of speech: noun

Disdain; scorn; disobedience to the orders, etc., of a court; disgrace; shame.

Usage examples for contempt:

• She recalled now with an intolerable self- contempt her thoughts of her father at the time of the funeral and the hours that followed. "The Captives", Hugh Walpole

• With your face and your voice-" " Oh, it isn't the voice," she said with contempt "The Woman With The Fan", Robert Hichens

• You look upon us with contempt "Middy and Ensign", G. Manville Fenn

• The grinning cowboy looked down at the stranger in evident contempt "When A Man's A Man", Harold Bell Wright