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contempt: a willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body; a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous; open disrespect for a person or thing; lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike; "he was held in contempt"; "the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary"

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scorn collapse

hold cheap collapse

be above collapse

look down upon collapse

misprize collapse

sneeze at collapse

despise collapse

abhorrent collapse: offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"

rebarbative collapse: serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent"

sickening collapse

deride collapse: treat or speak of with contempt; "He derided his student's attempt to solve the biggest problem in mathematics"

insult collapse: a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect; "turning his back on me was a deliberate insult"

revolting collapse

sneer collapse: a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls; a contemptuous or scornful remark; smile contemptuously; "she sneered at her little sister's efforts to play the song on the piano"; express through a scornful smile; "she sneered her contempt"

objectionable collapse: causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person"

airs collapse: affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on airs with me"

contemn collapse: look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately"

disdain collapse

exclusiveness collapse

hold in contempt collapse

repellent collapse: the power to repel; "she knew many repellents to his advances"; a chemical substance that repels animals; a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water; incapable of absorbing or mixing with; "a water-repellent fabric"; "plastic highly resistant to steam and water"

hauteur collapse

think nothing of collapse

nauseating collapse: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"

ignoble collapse: completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose; "something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude"; "I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part"- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; not of the nobility; "of ignoble (or ungentle) birth"; "untitled civilians"

detestable collapse

loathsome collapse

faint praise collapse

derision collapse: the act of deriding or treating with contempt; contemptuous laughter

contumely collapse

dump on collapse

in opposition to collapse

beneath contempt collapse

ignominy collapse

arrogance collapse: overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors

obnoxious collapse

ridicule collapse: language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate; subject to laughter or ridicule; "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"

disparagement collapse: the act of speaking contemptuously of; a communication that belittles somebody or something

despite collapse: contemptuous disregard; "she wanted neither favor nor despite"

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