If you treat someone or something with ~, you express contempt for them.
He tried to calm them, but was greeted with shouts of ~.
= disdain
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If you treat someone or something with ~, you express contempt for them.
He tried to calm them, but was greeted with shouts of ~.
= disdain
N-UNCOUNT
Collins COBUILD. Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) . 2012