Definition: 1. Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike. 2. A manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous. 3. Open disrespect for a person or thing. 4. The feeling that somebody or something is without value and deserves no respect at all.
Use 'contempt' in a sentence:
1. What he said shows contempt for the general.
2. He showed his contempt through derision.
3. He who swallows food handed out in contempt will have a bellyache.
4. Mr. Kelly was sentenced to six months in prison for contempt.
5. We feel contempt for a liar.
6. The reviews for 'On a Clear Day' ran the gamut from contempt to qualified rapture.
7. Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
8. It is the hour of great contempt.
9. The lazybones are always held in contempt.
10. Christopher's listening face flamed at the contempt.
11. These emotions included interest, joy, surprise, sadness, anger, disgust, contempt, and fear.
12. He interpreted the silence as contempt.
13. They looked on his behaviour with contempt.
14. Ah Q had always had the greatest contempt for such people as little nuns.
15. The death knell of a marriage is contempt.
16. She was jailed for a week for contempt of court.
17. There was a prima facie case that a contempt of court had been committed.
18. The complainant has been exposed to public odium, scandal and contempt.
19. She looked at him with contempt.
20. I hope voters will treat his advice with the contempt it deserves.
21. Too short a sentence, we fear, will create contempt for the law.
22. His humour depended on contempt for others.
23. Any person who disregards this order will be in contempt of court.
24. The bikers have shown enough contempt of the law to ride their machines over police cars. 'You've got to laugh at their audacity,' said Mr Starkey.
25. She was held in contempt for refusing to testify.
26. In showing contempt for the heavyweight championship Douglas offended a stern code.
27. Coleman in his early work held athletics in contempt, arguing that they crowded out schools' academic missions.
28. Similarly, some male authors, disgruntled by the emergence of great numbers of women writers, expressed contempt for the genre.
29. The complainant has been exposed to public odium, scandal, and contempt.
30. The judge issued a contempt citation against the woman for violating a previous court order.
31. His contempt for Teutonism in the international arena and eugenics within a society made him one of Nazism's earliest foes.
32. Politicians seem to be generally held in contempt by ordinary people.
33. They evaded the obtrusive Turk with a sort of contempt and always managed to find the greenest bushes for themselves.
34. The firefighters showed a contempt for their own safety.
35. He faced imprisonment for contempt of court.
36. I shall treat that suggestion with the contempt it deserves.
37. He has contempt for those beyond his immediate family circle.
38. The attacker still stood there, watching her with silent contempt.
39. His treatment of his children is beneath contempt.
40. They had shown a contempt for the values she thought important.
41. He could be jailed for two years for contempt.
42. Mack felt a pitiless contempt for her.
43. Small wonder that many voters hold their politicians in contempt.
44. Newman wrote, "that I am tempted to define 'journalism' as 'a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are.'"
45. His remarks betray a staggering contempt for the truth.
