contempt

Used to express contempt, scorn , or disapproval or to frighten or surprise another .

He never "watch" his language with her, which at first she took as evidence of his contempt.

One must speak of him bluntly and, if need be, with the appropriate contempt.

boo! : (interjection) Used to express contempt, scorn , or disapproval or to frighten or surprise another.

Politicians seem to be generally held in contempt by the police.

not one of them will ever see the land I promised on oath to their forefathers. No one who has treated me with contempt will ever see it.

You have done all this! and yet you can treat the mention of his misfortune with contempt and ridicule .

He later said he felt nothing but contempt for those who had observed him, safe and distant, like indifferent gods.

Is still a long day, the book also need you to smear the colors, do such a contempt for life.

The unbelief of the general and his contempt for the Lord made him see the grain but not eat of it.

However, in the case of personal performance contracts, it may also be ensured through the threat of proceedings for contempt of court.

Do not look down on you, they smile, a smile to the contempt of the difficulties you courage, a smile will change your life.

But knowing this still had not prepared him for the severity of Ivetta's contempt.

She imagined it was that weakness which had incurred the contempt of Glaucus.

She met girls of her own age, who looked at her as if with contempt for her diffidence .

The High Court in London heard that the two women were the first people ever to be prosecuted for contempt of court involving the internet.

Since the unity government was set up a year ago, Mr Mugabe has treated Mr Tsvangirai and his party with contempt.

he did not reproach her at all , and she , greatly moved , was divided between feelings of pity and of contempt . the poor man !

China, she said, "has made it clear, again and again, that it has contempt for the basic freedoms" of its people.

Her dummy wiggled its wooden ears and looked at me with irritation and contempt.

I was surprised, so many days of progress on such a large, hard to think of her spirit, I really own previous ashamed of her contempt.

Mary was by now so consumed with contempt for Darnley that she resolved to be rid of him.

Ignorance, forgetfulness, or contempt of the rights of man are the only causes of public misfortunes and of the corruption of government.

Defamation and contempt of those absurd attempt to fight her to re-ignite the fire of love.

This is an attempt to avoid the fact that while familiarity can breed liking, over-familiarity tends to breed contempt.

" Later he says, " To give up running would be to hold him in contempt.

But Ephraim has bitterly provoked him to anger; his Lord will leave upon him the guilt of his bloodshed and will repay him for his contempt.

if a court order is not complied with , the power of the court to punish for contempt of court may be exercised by an order of committal.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people' s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Her final and ultimatum of contempt consisted in a very emphatic pronunciation of the word "shiftless" .

It was neither a contempt for Tess's nature, nor the probable state of her heart, which deterred him.

He turned to his daughter and looked at her with icy contempt.

Before I tell you what I think of your problem, I should warn you that most FT readers under 40 (a few over 40) hold you in contempt.

The ' contempt' explanation seems more likely , as the extra time that women wait seems to increase when the coffee shop is busy .

Lah distrusted Anor, for he felt nothing but contempt for the bureaucrats of the Praetorite Vong.

Politicians seem to be generally held in contempt by ordinary people.

"Well, " she said with the same undertone of contempt that seemed to pull her apart from him.

The motive that urged them both so soon to go against the Hurons, was an habitual contempt of their enemy.

A judge found a high school principal and athletic director not guilty of contempt after giving a prayer during a school luncheon.

The little ugly duck in the fairy tale by their own ugly, by the cycle of it all the contempt.

They took it without thanks, looking at him curiously and uneasily; learning from him maybe at that moment their first lesson in contempt.

And yet curiously enough he was held in a slight contempt by the others.

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

She had treated him with interest, with encouragement, with malice, with indifference, with contempt.

That's a harsh form of exceptionalism in a culture of implicit contempt for the elderly's frailty, dependence and intense vulnerability.

I know that the moment belongs to you and your dearest parents. And I will never do things which contempt or embarrass you.

The next day, however, Mr Kibaki responded with apparent contempt to Mr Odinga's climb down by unilaterally appointing 17 cabinet ministers.

" The child heard a bit deep, and the tone of contempt, said: " Black Chrysanthemum, Here, I killed you.

We threw a look of contempt at him because he told a deliberate lie.

They found Sewart was also in contempt of court but said she would not be jailed as she has a three-year-old child.

They learn that theirs is not the only way of doing things. Yet this doesn't translate into contempt for their own land and its history.

Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart; then I can answer anyone who treats me with contempt.

And the DOJ could be less likely to block contempt charges against former White House aides who have refused to testify before Congress.

Before I tell you what I think of your problem, I should warn you that most readers under 40hold you in contempt.

The feelings that she silently conveyed were not lost on him: it was contempt infused with condescending love.

Nearly all the self-made billionaires I interviewed told me they had faced contempt from people born rich, just as Mr. Chen had.

i feel nothing but contempt for such dishonest behavior .

I feel nothing but contempt for such dishonest behaviour.

However, North Korea holds him in contempt and seeks to upset his ambitions.

For outward glamour, or rank they have nothing but a cool contempt.

Yet, for all his talk, he treats his people with contempt, reducing the political process to a Byzantine and meaningless guessing-game.

Contempt for lawyers who object to their criminal-justice policies has been a leitmotif for Labour home secretaries.

It reflects contempt and rejection of men's real and natural sexual disposition.

The expression of his face changed gradually from indignant contempt to a composed and steady gravity.

Dr. Cooper, before I find you in contempt and throw you in jail, I'm going to give you a chance to apologize for that last remark.

After attacking his own deal and expressing contempt for the other side, he switched to telling Democrats to embrace bipartisanship.

When I hear a professional martial arts instructor advising their students to be more natural, I cannot help but feel contempt.

For this reason, journalists will protect their sources, even if it means facing contempt of court.

Her dignity and social position were not enough to compensate for the contempt she saw in his pale eyes.

He tried to veil his contempt at my ignorance.

But if she defied the order, Breen faced the prospect of up to five years in jail for contempt.

His cocky contempt for authority led him to question received wisdom in ways that well-trained acolytes in the academy never contemplated.

Lies have been recognized as a synonym for cheating and hypocrisy and liars are often held in contempt.

The original reason for human beings worshipping deities was their contempt for themselves and for the rest of their own kind.

After a rocky courtship he marries a woman he grows to hold in contempt, though he is too polite to let it show. St.

Feel nothing but contempt for people who treat children so cruelly.

In an interview, Han Han, China's most popular blogger, expressed contempt for the investment pouring into the island.

Grow not proud from praise or esteem; Nor be angry at contempt and disdain; With compassion for the unfortunate, Strive only to help.

He wants to be the object of love and esteem among men, and he sees that his faults merit only their hatred and contempt.

The court takes a serious view of any act that would amount to contempt.

You are determined to ruin him in the opinion of all his friends, and make him the contempt of the world.

The Swiss don't like the fact that they have contempt for authority and are lazy.

He responds to the age of foolish laughter with sneer, ridicule, derision and contempt.

Mr Meles's contempt for what he calls the "neoliberalism" of the West is as plain as his admiration for "generous" and "dependable" China.

Now Mr Chaudhry is out to settle scores with nine senior judges accused of contempt of court for accepting jobs late in Mr Musharraf's rule.

The lady looked at it with contempt. "This one doesn't do anything for anybody. You're wasting my time, Miss Hatter. "

Gone, I gather, is much of the public contempt for the Prime Minister: now the punters just feel sorry for Gordon, God help him.

[attrib. ]used to express surprise, admiration, or contempt, especially in exclamations.

The convert was not contented and showed conspicuous contempt for the convention, which aroused controversy among those conservationists.

He seems to ooze contempt for the environment.

Do not pass without a contempt, endure and struggle to conquer fate.

The new neighbors with contempt, and his eyes see old friends saw him nothing except "money" .

It is no wonder, then, that the ruling council treats reluctant recognition from Moscow and Beijing with unconcealed contempt.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

The judge ordered him to purge his contempt by apologizing to the court.

brown ' s contempt for women stroked the jealousy , the fear that stanley usually was able to control.

Shadrake, who will be sentenced next week, faces a possible jail term, a fine or both for contempt of court.

There was a look of contempt in the steady searching gaze .

Waving shoes in the air in a dramatic Arab show of contempt, the crowds in central Cairo chanted: "Down, down Hosni Mubarak. "

It is an outburst of wild defiant sorrow, and of contempt for all the adversities of the world.

Used to express interrogation, surprise, contempt, or indifference.

I shall treat that suggestion with the contempt it deserves.

No I don't, mass third world immigration shows the contempt our government has for the British public.

I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of his premeditated contempt for me.

Margaret Thatcher made no secret of her contempt for the wimpish men around her.

He took no pains to hide his contempt for Mr. Bounderby.

As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible.

They showed nothing but contempt for him.

But contempt for the police is just as common.

Nothing but contempt is due to those people who ask us to submit to unmerited oppression.

Judge Hoffman sentenced all the defendants and their counsel to terms of imprisonment for contempt of court.

Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.

Destroy the people's faith in their natural leaders by holding the latter up to contempt, ridicule and disgrace.

He could hardly veil his contempt at my ignorance.

Destroy the people's faith in their natural leaders by holding the latter up to contempt, ridicule and obloquy.

Mama F. is going to feel contempt towards her daughter, and she's not going to know the true source of those feelings.

Their sense of justice gave them armor against the contempt of others.

In addition to Yiyin throughout the day, there was no can do, serious contempt!

Familiarity creates comfort, even if it also breeds contempt.

Before it even bothered to get up, the kobold foolishly sneered in contempt at the mercenary leader.

The Shabab, for their part, have nothing but contempt for President Ahmed.

But I think the real answer lies in our workaholic culture's contempt for a time-waster like sleep.

John Major became an object of contempt because of his dogged refusal to preside over the break-up of the Conservative Party.

The wicked may gain wealth and power, but they do not get away with their sin; they rise again "to shame and everlasting contempt. "

We respect the true gardener, but contempt for an independent spirit is not free thought for teachers.

contempt for psychological intervention, lacking of communication, untimeliness of recovery of university crisis.

If you hold him in contempt, all is lost.

The enhanced IRR also allows the FDA director to hold in contempt any person who ignores orders and writs issued by the agency.

To express contempt for such practices, and for their authentic rapidly out spaces to infidels successor to his image as their own.

He refused to obey the court order and was sent to prison for contempt.

Men are more likely to hide surprise and fear while women control disgust, contempt and anger and many other emotions.

Do you have the nerve to say, 'Let me wash your face for you, ' when your own face is distorted by contempt?

Americans treat doctors with a strange mixture of awe, respect, cynicism, and contempt.

Ten "unfriendly " witnesses refused to answer questions about their political affiliations and were cited for contempt of Congress.

Damn it: Used to express anger, irritation, contempt, or disappointment.

His cocky contempt for authority led him to question conventional wisdom.

Former aide to presidential candidate John Edwards is held in contempt of court for not turning over a personal videotape.

Let go of your contempt for life before it destroys everything you hold dear! -I will not be the weak link.

The line between love and contempt grows ever thinner when compassion declines, as it must in toddler love.

spinsters would be looked down upon as a burden with mixed pity and contempt.

Its purpose is to use vulgar words to vent their discontent, worry, anger, surprise and contempt, and protest so intense emotions.

Today, we often look at leaders with a sense of contempt and disdain.

They consist of and completely resemble the seven universal emotions: disgust, anger, fear, sadness, happiness, surprise, and contempt.

Whether in solitude or forgotten, whether in contempt or by other unfair treatment, cacti are always full of vitality.

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.

Many people held him in respect [esteem, contempt].

At common law, conduct tending to interfere with the course of justice in particular legal proceedings constitutes criminal contempt .

Crime is the public enemy of the civilized societies, is the serious contempt and disruption of social order.

Later in the movie he says, "To give up running would be to hold God in contempt. "

Mike Nifong has been sentenced to one day in jail after being held in criminal contempt for lying to the court.

The colored citizens in those States are virtually disfranchised, the Constitution held in utter contempt and its provisions nullified.

Traitors have always been treated with contempt.

Especially the "cold violence, " the perpetrators to the cold, distant, contempt, ridicule, etc. , it is not known to outsiders.

The Ds consider themselves to be underprivileged and hold everyone else in contempt.

Never has a scholarly work of this stature been attacked with such unbridled fury and contempt.

All the same, the gap between French skill in financial engineering and popular contempt for financial markets remains wide.

Familiarity can, of course, breed content just as easily as contempt but what it always creates is a lack of objectivity.

Such contempt, however, is disruptive in a social order marked by ethnic diversity, class insecurity and envy.

When wickedness comes, so does contempt, and with shame comes disgrace.

If the Chinese do not feel for us an actual contempt, they do feel condescension, and often unintentionally manifest it.

So blatant an invitation to intolerance be fouls the political process and ought to yield contempt rather than votes.

He was the 1st important Romantic poet, showing a contempt for rationalism and bringing something fresh to British poetry. He is Blake.

By flaunting its contempt for international norms, the administration renders those norms laughing-stocks, laments Mr Wittes.

Do not make me the object of your contempt.

Man alone is capable of so much self-contempt.

Furthermore, entrepreneurs should view any young person who opted for venture capital over "real world" experience with contempt.

Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, the meanest bee hath, and with use, a sting.

this sentence is said very softly, next to the table for a man or a contempt eyes on me.

Were she to be found in contempt of court, Interpol could be notified.

The word doesn't in the least imply contempt.

Indeed, "this simultaneous concern for appearance and contempt for substance is a pattern deeply rooted in Soviet history. "

Your contempt shines through in the way you've written your problem, and I bet you've communicated that to him.

And Jehovah saw and held them in contempt, Because of anger provoked by His sons and daughters.

I was seized by powerful feelings of my own: deep loathing and contempt.

He who mocks the poor shows contempt for their Maker; whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished.

Hence, I suppose, comes our slight contempt for men of action­ men, we assume, who don't think.

Remarks which betray a staggering contempt for the truth.

extreme cold; extreme caution; extreme pleasure; utmost contempt; to the utmost degree; in the uttermost distress.

When her eyes with a kind of contempt I hope when I'm really sad.

Lord Tywin had always held the Free Cities in contempt. They fight with coins instead of swords, he used to say.

Nowhere is contempt for free enterprise, and its linked evils of wealth and profits, more intense than in France.

If a newspaper breached such an order, it would face heavy fines; its editors could even face jail for contempt of court.

The current language of gender discrimination is mainly manifested in contempt, humiliation and neglect of women's language.

But if I went back for the Bandaids I would have to endure the contempt of my acquaintances.

But it demonstrated contempt for Russian voters and the triumph of private deals over institutions and the constitution.

Fabio Capello is fastidious about what he wears but his contempt for the ankle sock is strange.

In so doing, they violate copyright laws, and criminologists would hypothesize they thereby learn contempt for laws in general.

For a split second, the utter contempt in Snape's eyes seemed to waiver.

Each time, the doubters say, Mr Obama's delicate overtures are met with ambiguity or contempt.

Look down with an utter contempt upon butter, And never touch bread till it's toasted--or stale.

The programme aims to give a sense of their own worth and faith in the future to children who have only ever been treated with contempt.

He also accused Rupert Dickinson, the firm's chief executive, of "contempt" for his green views.

His treatment of his children is beneath contempt .

Eye rolling is a painfully obvious sign of contempt, and it's a powerful predictor that your relationship is in serious trouble.

In fact, most observers say, it was her contempt for Mr Yanukovich and his men that put her behind bars.

He could be jailed for two years for contempt.

And if you believe we've wasted the court's time, hold me in contempt.

Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.

A form of wit that is marked by the use of sarcastic language and is intended to make its victim the butt of contempt or ridicule.

Now Mr Juppe's open contempt for Mr Westerwelle raises eyebrows among the most hardened Brussels hands.

Used to express impatient rejection or contempt.

The connection is history and the widespread contemporary ignorance of and contempt for the past and its lessons.

More than nationalistic passion, the people had an invisible self-confidence and contempt for things foreign.

The words rang out on a note of contempt.

The rich upstart may treat servants and supposed inferiors with harshness or contempt; not so the gentleman.

Federal bailouts already extended and promised for GM and Chrysler total more than $62 billion, fueling further lawmaker contempt.

My writings have been called a School for Suspicion, even more for Contempt, fortunately also for Courage and, in fact, for Daring.

Old Behrman, with his red eyes plainly streaming, shouted his contempt for such foolish imaginings.

Presently the soldiers regarded the air attacks with contempt .

You used to feel contempt for me.

Image extension ? "You chicken! " He cried , looking at Tom with contempt.

Contempt for others is the foundation of the hyper-vigilant child-rearing that Ms Chua practises.

The judge threatened to witness with contempt of court if she didn't answer the questions of the prosecuting attorney.

A rush of jealousy, of contempt, and anger with this thick, loud-breathing rustic got the better of Ashurt's self-possession .

Originality and ingenuity are richly rewarded, and orthodoxy is viewed with suspicion, if not contempt.

He was uncomfortable with the banking industry's contempt for the developing world.

Russia's opposition has denounced the planned swap as a show of contempt for democracy.

Even tho i ' m definitely not a friend of the communist party, but i still respect them, i do not contempt them.

Society is suffused by contempt for the West and hatred of Israel. It lacks the foundations for democracy.

He refused to answer in contempt of the rules of the court.

Given this contempt for hard science, I'm almost reluctant to mention the deniers' dishonesty on matters economic.

He lounged in an left armchair in a stance of deliberconsumed contempt.

For in revenge of my contempt of love, love has chased sleep from my enthralled eyes.

an expression of disapproval, contempt, or dissatisfaction conveyed by use of this sharp, sibilant sound.

Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction are no. different.

Perhaps the past year, we have forgotten him, and perhaps the names of his time, we will show contempt for the laugh.

His willingness to risk his country's fiscal credibility to protect his personal wealth was beneath contempt.

It also suggests the contempt the country's uniformed leaders display towards their civilian counterparts.

George's father is regarded by everyone as a great artist, but George doesn't think he is. Familiarity breeds contempt!

And therefore, when men are ingenious in picking out circumstances of contempt, they do kindle their anger much.

A sharp contortion of the face expressive of pain, contempt, or disgust.

To clear (a person) of a charge or an imputation. Often used with respect to contempt of court.

The lip corner does go up in contempt, but it's only on one side.

By supporting the Labor Left-Greens alliance, the so-called Independents have shown contempt for their conservative constituencies. . .

Many can bear adversity, but few contempt---Thomas Fuller, English churchman and historian.

Working middle-class women who had to make their own living came from socially deprived families and were treated with contempt.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.

" The devil and laughing, now is full of contempt: " you smug, but still a, call you sir, just because you are in me, only this and say.

She sat trembling slightly, but her heart brimming with contempt.

Where else can you now see greater displays of temper, violence, aggression, egotism and contempt for others than on a sports field?

He might even hold you in contempt of court.

Owen was listening to this pitiable farrago with feelings of contempt and wonder.

No power will be enslaved, may be contempt, whether do anything is reach for the stars.

His Internet posts also indicated contempt for the Conservative Party.

But they harbored even greater contempt for fellow Jews who collected taxes for the Romans.

This apparent lightheartedness does not conceal the real contempt that many men feel for women.

Then somebody laughed, then the entire class was laughellong, and not in contempt and ridicule, but with open-hearted enjoyment.

The most noticeable characteristic of Chinese attitudes towards Japan is contempt.

They are also more likely than Muslims in, say, Germany or France to hold Western values in contempt.