contempt
desprezo
definition
noun
he showed his contempt for his job by doing it very badly
the feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn.
translation of 'contempt'
noun
desprezo,
desonra,
menosprezo,
desobediência,
desgraça,
desdém
example
when he was found to have lied to the House this was a 'contempt'
Pam stared at the girl with total 'contempt'
The result of releasing these photographs would be, most likely, initial shock followed by disgust, 'contempt' and repugnance.
But there are others who deserve not pity but 'contempt' .
We have reached a point where people feel 'contempt' for the government but do not yet trust the opposition.
The statement showed 'contempt' for the public education system - its students, teachers and communities.
A prince who does not provoke the 'contempt' of nobles and keeps the people satisfied does not have to fear conspirators.
How would he respond to the charge that his book expresses a certain 'contempt' for the public?
The first five were friends from school teasing him in fun or scorning him with 'contempt' .
This power, exercised politically for far too long, has added to the public's 'contempt' for the honours that are now made.
But his prickly sense of slighted dignity and obsessive 'contempt' for other people's ethical squalor inevitably drags him down.
They're just wanting to exert their authority and treat Territorians with total 'contempt' .
This arrogance and 'contempt' for public opinion must be curbed.
They look upon it as a thing of 'contempt' and scorn people who swear by virtual relationships.
Certainly they show a fanatic's 'contempt' for the law.
Aquinas believed good law must be enforceable, otherwise it would be disregarded and risk causing 'contempt' for all laws.
Demands for respect while showing 'contempt' for the religions and cultures of others has denied them any empathy for their perceived grievances.
What standard of measuring respect or 'contempt' for human life should we use in making these judgments?
Later, I decided that I deserved his 'contempt' , and I hated myself for what I had written.
If the Government refuses to introduce changes now, it will be demonstrating its 'contempt' for democracy, public concern and animal welfare.
Defending it only draws the 'contempt' of average Democrats, who don't want their kids to die there.
In the bars he'd frequented as a cowboy hotshot, the elite stance involved a certain relaxed 'contempt' for the flesh.
A great power that fails to protect its citizens invites the 'contempt' of its adversaries.
It observes that the disregard and 'contempt' for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts that have outraged the conscience of mankind.
This was a slap in the face to those rulers: a challenge, 'contempt' and scorn for them, as if they are mere flies or dung beetles!
But surely my discourse is not of such repulse that I am deserving of their 'contempt' .
In this day and age it is hard to believe that people can be held up to hatred, ridicule and 'contempt' by a light-hearted gossip paragraph.
He had always had a particular 'contempt' by the workers here, mostly because they seemed so calm and collected, always.
Their 'contempt' for human life and disregard for the principle of non-combatant immunity stem not from despair and anger, but from nihilism.
This will be denied by the whites, who will insist that the basic problem remains the 'contempt' of their group for the non-white.
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