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What (who) is Contemn - definition

FEELING OR ATTITUDE OF REGARDING SOMEONE OR SOMETHING AS INFERIOR, BASE, OR WORTHLESS
Comtempt; Disdainful; Can Bite Me; Contemptible; Disrespect; Contemptuous; Contemn; Contemns; Contemned; Contemning; Contempts; Contemptuousness; Contemner; Contemners; Disdain
  • A painting by [[Louis-Léopold Boilly]] (ca. 1797).<br>The woman has been interpreted as a [[prostitute]] (who is '''disdaining''' the inadequate coin proffered by the fashionable gentleman getting his shoes shined at left).
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  • Facial expression of contempt
  • This picture of Thomas Ward, arrested for stealing a £1 coin, can be seen as showing contempt.

contemn         
v. a.
Despise, disdain, scorn, scout, spurn, slight, hold in contempt, look down upon, turn a cold shoulder upon, turn up one's nose at, snap one's fingers at, laugh to scorn, point the finger of scorn at.
Contemn         
·vt To view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to Despise; to Scorn.
contemn         
[k?n't?m]
¦ verb archaic treat or regard with contempt.
Derivatives
contemner -'t?m?, -'t?mn? noun
Origin
ME: from L. contemnere, from con- (expressing intensive force) + temnere 'despise'.

Wikipedia

Contempt

Contempt is an attitude towards individuals, social groups and eventually ideologies, which involves disgust and anger while generally triggering maladaptive behaviours. However other authors define contempt as a negative emotion. Paul Ekman categorises contempt as the seventh basic emotion, along with anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise. Robert C. Solomon places contempt on the same continuum as resentment and anger, and he argues that the differences between the three are that resentment is anger directed towards a higher-status individual; anger is directed towards an equal-status individual; and contempt is anger directed towards a lower-status individual.