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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to contempt:   (228 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

More general:
discourtesy, dislike, disobedience, disrespect, noncompliance, rudeness

Synonyms:
disdain, disrespect, scorn

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— Adjectives for contempt: great, utter, such, profound, utmost, supreme, much, open, sovereign, silent, greatest, more...

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