Contempt

Noun

 * 1)  The feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn.
 * 2) The state of being despised or dishonored; disgrace.
 * 3)  Open disrespect or willful disobedience of the authority of a court of law or legislative body.

Adjectives for Contempt
inexplicable; beautiful; impersonal; concentrated ; dignified; undisguised ; supercilious; exaggerated; inexpressible; reckless; fierce; lofty; veiled; half-compassionate; uncharitable; faint; deprecating; emphatic; cynical; spendthrift; withering; utmost; considerable; unreasoning; infinite; ineffable;indiscriminate; bitterest; thorough; profound; uncompromising; notable; alternate; characteristic; deep-rooted; loud; ironical; arrogant; irrepressible; supreme; utter habitual; genuine; biting; absolute; irrevocable; noisy; blighting; ineffable; unequivocal; notable; paternal; grand; magnificent; eloquent; smiling; goodnatured factitious; unfeigned; ardent; courageous illimitable; aristocratic; lofty; cavalier holy; highbred; cold; stern; skeptical; icy scornful; gloating; exasperating; shocked keen; apparent; thundering; hereditary growing; sudden; shattering; inherited sweeping; high-nosed; friary.

Verbs for Contempt
admit—; awake—; bear—; breed—; convey—; deserve—; disdain—; entertain— excite—; fill with—; foster—; gesture— hurl—; imply—; place in—; pour out— profess—;  provoke—;   regard   with— shield   from—;  sigh with—;  smile— spurn—; tinge with—; treat with—; veil— wither with—; —arises; —deepens; —dies —flickers; —infuriates; —terrifies; —shrivels up.

Derived terms
contemptible; contemptuous; familiarity breeds contempt

Thesaurus
hate, hatred, humiliation, ignominy, ignoring, impertinence, impudence, indignity, infamy, injury, insolence, insult, jeer, jeering, loathing, mock, mockery, nonacceptance, nonapproval, nonconsideration, odium, offense, opprobrium, outrage, passing by, pertness, put-down, putting away, putting out, rebuff, recalcitrance, recantation, refusal, rejection, renouncement, repudiation, repugnance, repulse, ridicule, rudeness, sauciness, scoff, scorn, scouting, scurrility, shame, spurning, stubbornness, taunt, throwing out, turning out, uncomplimentary remark, abhorrence, abjuration, abjurement, affront, antipathy, arrogance, aspersion, atrocity, audacity, aversion, bold front, boldness, brash bearing, brashness, brassiness, bravado, brazenfacedness, brazenness, brickbat, bumptiousness, cheekiness, chucking, chucking out, cockiness, contemptuousness, contradiction, contumacy, contumely, cut, daring, daringness, declination, declining, defial, defiance, defying, denial, denigration, deprecation, depreciation, derision, despisal, despising, despite, disapproval, discard, disclamation, discommendation, discounting, discredit, disdain, disesteem, disfavor, disgust, dishonor, dismissal, disownment, disparagement, dispraise, disregard, disrepute, disrespectfulness, distaste, disvaluation, dump, enormity, exception, exclusion, face of brass, flippancy, flout, flouting, freshness, gibe,

Etymology
From contemptus: < contemnere: < com-: + temnere:.

Translations

 * Arabic: احتقار
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: презрение,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: halveksinta, ylenkatse
 * French:


 * German:
 * Hebrew: בוז
 * Icelandic:
 * Japanese:, 侮蔑,
 * Malayalam: പുച്‌ഛം (puchham)
 * Polish: ,
 * Russian: презрение,
 * Spanish:, desdén
 * Swedish: missnöje, misshag, förakt
 * Volapük: nestüm


 * Czech:
 * Finnish: kunniattomuus
 * German: Schande, Blamage
 * Icelandic:


 * Japanese:
 * Polish: pogarda, lekceważenie
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: desgracia, deshonra, vergüenza


 * Bulgarian: неуважение
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: open disrespect of a court of law oikeuden halventaminen
 * German: Mißachtung, Beamtenbeleidigung
 * Icelandic:


 * Polish: lekceważenie
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: