Definition of contempt

"contempt" in the noun sense

1. contempt, disdain, scorn, despite

lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike

"he was held in contempt"

"the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary"

2. contempt, disrespect

a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous

3. contempt, scorn

open disrespect for a person or thing

4. contempt

a willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body

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Quotations for contempt

Who can refute a sneer? [ Paley ]

Familiarity breeds contempt. [ Proverb ]

To be too busy gets contempt. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Some evils are cured by contempt. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Too much familiarity breeds contempt. [ Proverb ]

Happy that I can
Be crossed and thwarted as a man,
Not left in God's contempt apart,
With ghastly smooth life, dead at heart,
Tame in earth's paddock, as her prize. [ Browning ]

Valor is the contempt of death and pain. [ Tacitus ]

Contempt leaves a deeper scar than anger.

Many can bear adversity, but few contempt. [ Proverb ]

Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion. [ Zimmermann ]

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. [ B. Franklin ]

An Englishman fears contempt more than death. [ Goldsmith ]

Nothing so contemptible as habitual contempt. [ E. L. Magoon ]

Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible. [ Chamfort ]

Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny. [ Madame de Maintenon ]

Those only are despicable who fear to be despised. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt. [ Cervantes ]

Contempt is usually worse borne than real injuries. [ Proverb ]

Contempt will cause Spite to drink of her own poison. [ Proverb ]

No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it. [ Johnson ]

None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Hate injures no one; it is contempt that casts men down. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Contempt should be the best concealed of our sentiments.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. [ Seneca ]

Life in harmony with virtue is the only life safe from contempt. [ Edwin P. Whipple ]

A man gains nothing by being vain-glorious, but contempt and hatred. [ Proverb ]

Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great. [ Addison ]

Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals. [ Joubert ]

Pride is the consciousness of what one is, without contempt for others. [ Senac de Meilhan ]

Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt. [ J. G. Saxe ]

O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful in the contempt and anger of his lip! [ William Shakespeare ]

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. [ Hazlitt ]

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of it creates a great man. [ Talleyrand ]

Teach not thy lip such scorn; for it was made for kissing, lady, not for such contempt. [ William Shakespeare ]

Excellence and greatness of soul are most conspicuously displayed in contempt of riches.

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a contempt for mere external show. [ James A. Garfield ]

Contempt is like the hot iron that brands criminals: its imprint is. almost always indelible. [ Alibert ]

Be not too familiar with thy servants; at first it may beget love, but in the end it will breed contempt. [ Fuller ]

The spirit of contempt is the true spirit of Antichrist; for no other is more directly opposed to Christ. [ Henry Giles ]

Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees. [ Johnson ]

There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart. [ James Martineau ]

The best philosophy to employ toward the world is to alloy the sarcasm of gayety with the indulgence of contempt. [ Chamfort ]

Of all human actions, pride seldomest obtains its end; for, aiming at honor and reputation, it reaps contempt and derision. [ Walker ]

I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty. [ Willis ]

The disesteem and contempt of others is inseparable from pride. It is hardly possible to overvalue ourselves but by undervaluing our neighbors. [ Clarendon ]

Famine is in thy cheeks. Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes. Contempt and beggary hang upon thy back; The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. [ William Shakespeare ]

Seek not proud riches, but such as thou may'st get justly use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly; yet have no abstract nor friarly contempt of them. [ Bacon ]

Speak with contempt of no man. Every one hath a tender sense of reputation. And every man hath a sting, which he may, if provoked too far, dart out at one time or other. [ Burton ]

There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we consider those things of little importance which have in fact such extensive consequences. [ Fenelon ]

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility. [ Sir J. Mackintosh ]

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several - from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy. [ La Bruyere ]

Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit: but a just contempt of an enemy can alone arise in those who feel that they are superior to their opponent by the prudence of their measures. [ Thucydides ]

It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for a person to let money-getting harden his heart into contempt, or into impatience, of the little attentions, the merriments and the caresses of domestic life. [ Mountford ]

There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero. [ Fielding ]

A literary career is a more thorny path than that which leads to fortune. If you have the misfortune not to rise above mediocrity, you feel mortified for life; and if you are successful, a host of enemies spring up against you. Thus you find yourself on the brink of an abyss between contempt and hatred. [ Voltaire ]

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart; it is not contempt; its essence is love: it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. It is a sort of inverse sublimity, exalting, as it were, into our affections what is below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us. [ Carlyle ]

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature. [ Sterne ]

contempt in Scrabble®

The word contempt is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters contempt:

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CONTEMPT
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contempt in Words With Friends™

The word contempt is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 18

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters contempt:

CONTEMPT
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CONTEMPT
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Words within the letters of contempt

2 letter words in contempt (7 words)

5 letter words in contempt (6 words)

6 letter words in contempt (3 words)

8 letter words in contempt (1 word)

contempt + 1 blank (2 words)

Words containing the sequence contempt

Words with contempt in them (1 word)

Words that end with contempt (1 word)

Word Growth involving contempt

Shorter words in contempt

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Longer words containing contempt

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