(n.) The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
(n.) The state of being despised; disgrace; shame.
(n.) An act or expression denoting contempt.
(n.) Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the respect due to its authority.
Example Sentences:
(1) This "paradox of redistribution" was certainly observable in Britain, where Welfare retained its status as one of the 20th century's most exalted creations, even while those claiming benefits were treated with ever greater contempt.
(2) Refusing either to acquiesce in, or to rail at, Eliot's contempt for Jews, one strives to do justice to the many injustices Eliot does to Jews.
(3) But if it succeeds in getting a ban on the eight named phones, it could add the Galaxy S3 to the list through a more rapid "contempt proceeding" before the judge, according to legal experts.
(4) Yes, Goldsmith is to be held in contempt: a man of decency would have rejected this gutter strategy.
(5) "To prosecute someone for contempt of court is quite a serious step.
(6) Plagued by prison riots, IRA breakouts, illegal deportations, verdicts that found him in contempt of court, and over-hasty legislation on dogs, he acquired a reputation – as home secretaries often do – for being accident-prone.
(7) All the while, they are treated with a dismissiveness that borders on contempt.
(8) Perhaps monstering earns underdog sympathy, with contempt for the press as rife as contempt for conventional politics.
(9) Skylight review – Nighy and Mulligan in moving mixture of politics and love | Michael Billington Read more Commentators write glibly about the public’s increasing contempt for politicians, and yet what goes unremarked, and is equally damaging, is politicians’ growing contempt for us.
(10) A report on phone hacking published by the select committee on standards and privileges concluded hacking could be in contempt, "if it can be shown to have interfered with the work of the house or to have impeded or obstructed an MP from taking part in such work".
(11) Even the most “apolitical” of writers had found it difficult to conceal their contempt for the state of the country.
(12) Every detail of the dissolution honours betrayed contempt for the public.
(13) Above a fairly straightforward news story about the court’s decision to allow the country’s elected representatives a vote on the biggest constitutional upheaval in a generation, initially the headline read: “Yet again the elite show their contempt for Brexit voters!” Call me ‘remoaner-in-chief’, but I won’t be voting to trigger article 50 | Owen Smith Read more Launched within an hour of the verdict, the headline went on: “Supreme Court rules Theresa May CANNOT trigger Britain’s departure from the EU without MPs’ approval … as Remain campaigners gloat.” The copy itself provided little evidence of gloating.
(14) The government’s green paper on parliamentary privilege , published in 2012, said: [Parliament’s] power to punish non-members for contempt is untested in recent times.
(15) A move by the chancellor in the autumn statement to reverse the planned cuts to work allowances would send a strong message that the government’s welcome rhetoric is being backed by bold policy decisions.” The Lib Dem leader, Tim Farron, said: “Theresa May and Philip Hammond have as much contempt for low income families as David Cameron and George Osborne ever did.
(16) I felt deeply grateful, but I also realised that my contempt for the non-hardcore readers – the softer core readers... not contempt, but my writing them off, had been premature.
(17) In a statement, the network added: "The crackdown on activists, being directly related to the anniversary, demonstrates contempt towards international human rights norms and insincerity in the government's own pledges and commitments to promote human rights in China ."
(18) Obstetrics was held in contempt by professionally educated and registered physicians and apothecaries, however, because of the immodesty and messiness of the work and the long hours involved.
(19) Return of Rebekah Brooks is 'two fingers up to British public' – shadow minister Read more “I am now standing up against those that sit back and treat us all with contempt – the Murdochs and Brooks of the world,” Hanna said in a two-minute video released on Friday.
(20) "We had the absurd position this week of even MPs in our democratically elected parliament being threatened with potential contempt of court by using their parliamentary privilege to name people.
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Definition:
(n.) Scorn, derision, or contempt.
(n.) An object of scorn; a dupe; a gull.
(n.) To deride; to scorn; to mock.
(n.) To cheat; trick, or gull.
(v. i.) To jeer; to show contempt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients were randomized to have their skin closed with either continuous subcuticular non-absorbable polypropylene 'prolene' suture (33 patients) or metal skin staples (Autosuture 'Premium' or Davis and Geck 'Oppose'; 33 patients).
(2) The stomas were matured by mucocutaneous eversion and were fixated with Maxon (Davis & Geck, Pearl River, NY) 4-0 and Vicryl (Ethicon, Inc., Somerville, NJ) 3-0 sutures.
(3) We compared the performance of 10-0 Novafil (polybutester, Davis & Geck, American Cyanamid Company, New South Wales, Australia.)
(4) Polybutester (Novafil, Davis & Geck) and expanded polytetrafluoroethylene PTFE (Gore-tex, W L Gore) were compared with nylon (Ethilon, Ethicon UK) for elective inguinal herniorrhaphy.
(5) Poly(glycolic acid) (Dexon; Davis and Geck Company) canine vascular anastomoses between aorta and synthetic grafts and between severed femoral vessels were compared with comparable anastomoses made with Teflon-coated Dacron (Tevdek; The Deknatel Company) with respect to clinical performance, morphologic characteristics, and tensile strength.
(6) Dexon Mesh (Davis & Geck, Sugarland, TX) was used to partition the abdomen after incomplete resection of a locally advanced left colon cancer.
(7) The transmural implantation of stainless steel sutures into the distal descending colon of albino Swiss rats during the postinitiation phase of tumor induction resulted in significantly fewer animals exhibiting perianastomotic tumors 12 weeks later (3 of 21 animals) when compared with either polyamide (Nurolon; Ethicon, Edinburgh, United Kingdom) (14 of 20 animals; P less than 0.001) or polyglycolic acid (Dexon Plus; Davis and Geck, Gosport, United Kingdom) sutures (17 of 21 animals; P less than 0.001).
(8) Two suture closing materials were used--Surgilon (siliconized braided nylon, David and Geck, Wayne, NJ) and Vicryl (polyglactin 910, Ethicon, Somerville, NJ).
(9) The synthetic absorbable suture material "Dexon" is made of polyglycol acid, and it has been introduced to market by the firm Davis and Geck (U.S.A.).
(10) Similar colotomies were closed using a single layer of interrupted sutures of 5-0 Maxon (Davis & Geck, Pearl River, NY) in a control group (n = 20).
(11) When comparably sized needles were compared, Ethicon manufactured the sharpest needles, followed by Davis & Geck and Deknatel needles.
(12) A basolateral cotransporter of Na, K, and Cl with 1:1:2 stoichiometry (Geck, P., and E. Heinz.