noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
beneath contempt (= so bad that you have no respect for the person involved )
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I consider such behaviour to be beneath contempt .
treat sb with respect/contempt/suspicion etc
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When you treat the kids with respect, they act responsibly.
utter contempt
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This company treats its employees with utter contempt .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
deep
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He had a deep contempt for the bureaucratic mind and took particular delight in circumventing bureaucratic obstruction.
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But he was excluded from most official events, for which he had always shown nothing but the deepest contempt .
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I'd have scarcely thought it possible, but the lady in black found a look of even deeper contempt for me.
guilty
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But the court subsequently found two specific breaches involving officers of the union and held the union guilty of contempt .
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In each case the appellant has been found guilty of contempt of court and has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment.
open
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His humiliation and fear were washed away by a tide of anger, at this open display of contempt .
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Her dark eyes regarded her father and me with open contempt .
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The disorder, the whisperings, the giggles, the open contempt !
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That was what it was, but it hurt just the same, his open contempt of her.
utter
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Shortly after shooting them, Conroy displayed utter contempt for his two victims, the court heard.
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Having won their votes from the gullible, as well as the dedicated, the republicans now show their utter contempt for democracy.
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Treat him with the utter contempt he deserves.
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Despite the profit-making prospects in this it has been treated with utter contempt on the grounds that charity begins at home.
■ VERB
breed
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It also ensures that omissions are not made simply because you have dictated the letter so often that familiarity has bred contempt .
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The United States has usually been an exception to the rule that familiarity breeds contempt .
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For them, familiarity has bred contempt .
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Intimacy breeds contempt , but maybe we have gone too far.
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I see them every day and familiarity doesn't breed contempt so much as disgust in me.
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Arrogance in athletes breeds contempt in fans.
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A major difficulty with such a test is that familiarity may breed tolerance rather than contempt .
express
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At first she could think of nothing to say, because there was nothing that would adequately express her contempt .
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Why do they express contempt for any correspondence theories of epistemology that involve attentive engagement with the real?
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Squire and Ickes have expressed contempt for Mr Morris in earlier times.
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He prospered in this country, plying a uniquely leisure-class trade, and then expressed petty contempt for his hosts.
feel
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She was surprised to find that she felt only contempt .
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In the piece he confessed that he had once been a Marxist, but now felt contempt for such thinking.
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And I felt resentful contempt of my own, for Sebastian and his deferential barber.
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Especially with a woman for whom he felt nothing but contempt .
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Yet this was a man who felt nothing but contempt for her, who thought her no better than a thief.
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Many who disliked him are beginning to feel the same contempt and venom they felt for Baroness Bonkers.
find
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She found Jen's contempt for politicians both bracing and worrying.
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Boylston found Sherrod in contempt and sentenced him to 179 days in jail, but then transferred the sentence to Holley.
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The New York City officials were found in contempt of court for failing to find shelter quickly enough for needy families.
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In each case the appellant has been found guilty of contempt of court and has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment.
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Nor can they be found to be in contempt of court in relation to words spoken in the course of proceedings in Parliament.
hold
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She would never allow him a reason to pity her again, to hold her in contempt .
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McSpadden ruled that Lenhart had no such privilege, held her in contempt of court and ordered her jailed.
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Nevertheless they were held to be in contempt but, the strike having collapsed, no penalty was imposed.
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A state district judge held Lenhart in contempt , when she refused to identify the grand jurors who spoke to her.
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How could she have let herself be used by a man who held her in contempt ?
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To these people, whom they held in deeply justified contempt , both women paid ample lip-service.
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Several unions were held to be in contempt , were fined and had their assets sequestrated.
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And they all hold supply-side economics in contempt .
jail
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The company won, and when McLaren failed to show up in court, he was jailed for contempt .
purge
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There was no possibility of his being able to purge his contempt within a short time of his committal.
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It should also inform him of his right to apply to the court to purge his contempt .
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The notice also informs the contemnor of his right to apply to the court to purge his contempt and ask for release.
show
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Because he was literate and articulate, he showed a bitter contempt for the self-appointed intellectuals of the inter-war years.
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My clients say these things, perhaps, to belittle or show contempt for their local officers, who are their enemies.
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He showed his world his contempt for the job by doing it very badly.
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Having won their votes from the gullible, as well as the dedicated, the republicans now show their utter contempt for democracy.
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Within the familiarity of marriage there are many subtle ways of showing anger, contempt or cruelty.
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The prison hero is the one who most openly shows anger and contempt for the staff.
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Yet these can be overcome if people unite to show their contempt for the cruel, vicious minority.
treat
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Despite the profit-making prospects in this it has been treated with utter contempt on the grounds that charity begins at home.
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She was preparing to marry me and had applied for papers, but she treated me with contempt .
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Non-cooperation is treated as contempt of court.
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Opposition forces claim past practice as the basis for treating women with contempt .
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As imperial portraits attracted faith, so images of emperors who had betrayed their subjects' trust were treated with contempt .
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But, happily, not everybody treats kids with contempt .
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Maybe Lucenzo had good reason to treat her with contempt .
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Telemachus they treated with amused contempt as if he were a mere boy and quite beneath their notice.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
familiarity breeds contempt
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Perhaps familiarity breeds contempt - among teachers as well as children.
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The first is that familiarity breeds contempt.
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The United States has usually been an exception to the rule that familiarity breeds contempt.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He never tried to hide his contempt for those who were not as intelligent as him.
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I feel nothing but contempt for people who are obsessed with fast cars and designer clothes.
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The teachers were very old-fashioned, treating any new ideas with contempt and scorn.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And they all hold supply-side economics in contempt .
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I did not tell you lies but I do deserve your contempt .
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She remembered the contempt , the ice in his glance.
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The contempt for Daley was pouring down from all directions.
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This contempt for others is a denial of humanity.
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We should not allow that, because that would be a contempt of democracy.