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contempt
The willful defiance, disregard, or disrespect of judicial or legislative authority or dignity, especially any disobedience of an order or any conduct that disrupts, obstructs, or interferes with the administration or procedures of a court or legislature. See also contemner. The willful defiance, disregard, or disrespect of judicial or legislative authority or dignity, especially any disobedience of an order or any conduct that disrupts, obstructs, or interferes with the administration or procedures of a court or legislature. See also contemner.
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  1. The willful defiance, disregard, or disrespect of judicial or legislative authority or dignity, especially any disobedience of an order or any conduct that disrupts, obstructs, or interferes with the administration or procedures of a court or legislature. See also contemner. The willful defiance, disregard, or disrespect of judicial or legislative authority or dignity, especially any disobedience of an order or any conduct that disrupts, obstructs, or interferes with the administration or procedures of a court or legislature. See also contemner.
  2. The punishable act of showing disrespect for the authority or dignity of a court (or legislature), as by disobedience, unruliness, etc.
  3. Open disrespect or willful disobedience of the authority of a court of law or legislative body.
scorn
Expression of this in words or manner
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  1. Expression of this in words or manner
  2. Contempt or disdain felt toward a person or object considered despicable or unworthy:
  3. The object of such contempt
haughtiness
The state or property of being haughty; arrogance, snobbery.
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  1. The state or property of being haughty; arrogance, snobbery.
reject
To pass over or skip from (a record set by a record changer) without playing
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  1. To pass over or skip from (a record set by a record changer) without playing
  2. To refuse to take, agree to, accede to, use, believe, etc.
  3. To turn down (an applicant, as for a job); refuse to accept.
scorn
To refuse or reject as wrong or disgraceful
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  1. To refuse or reject as wrong or disgraceful
  2. To consider or treat as contemptible or unworthy:
  3. To consider or reject (doing something) as beneath one's dignity:
despise
To dislike intensely; loathe:
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  1. To dislike intensely; loathe:
  2. To look down on with contempt and scorn
  3. To regard with contempt or scorn:
ignore
(Law) To reject (a bill of indictment) for lack of evidence
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  1. (Law) To reject (a bill of indictment) for lack of evidence
  2. To disregard deliberately; pay no attention to; refuse to consider
contemn
To view with contempt; despise.
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  1. To view with contempt; despise.
  2. (Chiefly Literary) To treat or think of with contempt; scorn
despise
To dislike intensely; loathe:
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  1. To dislike intensely; loathe:
  2. To look down on with contempt and scorn
  3. To regard with contempt or scorn:
scorn
To reject or refuse with derision:
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  1. To reject or refuse with derision:
  2. To consider or reject (doing something) as beneath one's dignity:
  3. To consider or treat as contemptible or unworthy:
scout
To work as a scout
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  1. To work as a scout
  2. To search for talented people:
  3. To search as a scout:
contempt
The feeling or attitude of one who looks down on somebody or something as being low, mean, or unworthy; scorn
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  1. The feeling or attitude of one who looks down on somebody or something as being low, mean, or unworthy; scorn
  2. The state of being despised or dishonored:
  3. The willful defiance, disregard, or disrespect of judicial or legislative authority or dignity, especially any disobedience of an order or any conduct that disrupts, obstructs, or interferes with the administration or procedures of a court or legislature. See also contemner. The willful defiance, disregard, or disrespect of judicial or legislative authority or dignity, especially any disobedience of an order or any conduct that disrupts, obstructs, or interferes with the administration or procedures of a court or legislature. See also contemner.
despite
Contemptuous defiance or disregard.
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  1. Contemptuous defiance or disregard.
  2. (Archaic) Contempt; scorn
  3. Spite; malice:
scorn
(Archaic) One spoken of or treated with contempt.
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  1. (Archaic) One spoken of or treated with contempt.
  2. The object of such contempt
  3. Contempt or disdain felt toward a person or object considered despicable or unworthy:
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  • She glared at them both with a cross between disdain and fury.

  • Criminals have massive disdain for the law.

  • She winced at the disdain in his eyes.

  • She expressed disdain at the adulation the industry gives to beauty over talent.

  • To my surprise, her smile was no longer one of lofty disdain.

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