noun [U,sing.]
1 ~ (for sb/sth) the feeling that sb/sth is without value and deserves no respect at all:
She looked at him with contempt. * I shall treat that suggestion with the contempt it deserves. * His treatment of his children is beneath contempt (= so unacceptable that it is not even worth feeling contempt for). * Politicians seem to be generally held in contempt by the police. * They had shown a contempt for the values she thought important.
2 ~ for sth a lack of worry or fear about rules, danger, etc:
The firefighters showed a contempt for their own safety. * His remarks betray a staggering contempt for the truth (= are completely false).
3 = CONTEMPTOFCOURT:
He could be jailed for two years for contempt. * She was held in contempt for refusing to testify.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for contempt is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does contempt appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — contempt appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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