Contempt: alternatives and connections

Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility.

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To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish.

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Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition.

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Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy.

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Neglect of compliance; failure to comply.

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One who flees.

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To learn.

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To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression.

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Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful.

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Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful.

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Malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate.

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A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.

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Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy.

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Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.

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