![]() ![]() to give forth (a sound) otherwise than with the voice: The engine uttered a shriek. to express (oneself or itself), especially in words. (16) Humans generally held him in high contempt, showing disdain for him in some places, utterly shunning him in others. to produce (speech sounds, speechlike sounds, syllables, words, etc.) audibly, with or without reference to formal language. I have nothing but scorn contempt for people who are cruel to animals. (15) My utter disdain for the zoologist is no secret I think he is ridiculously overrated as an intellectual. : a feeling that someone or something is not worthy of any respect or approval. (14) Those who have it, use it, with condescension and casual disdain for those on the receiving end. (13) Despite her disdain for the bad boys, they keep on pursuing her. the state of being despised dishonor disgrace. (11) an aristocratic disdain for manual labour (12) He spoke with such fondness of the tuna melt, that despite my disdain for tinned tuna, I felt compelled to try one. the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless disdain scorn. Paul Ekman categorises contempt as the seventh basic emotion, along with anger, disgust, fear, happiness. 1 However other authors define contempt as a negative emotion. (10) Despite her disdain for the class and it's students, Angelique had better luck than most of them. Contempt is an attitude towards individuals, social groups and eventually ideologies, which involves disgust and anger while generally triggering maladaptive behaviours. (9) In this case, I find it difficult to understand why there's so much hatred and disdain for this movie. (8) Despite his disdain for much about the town at the time, the rector was optimistic about the future. (7) Scientists will have to step out of their laboratories and humanists will have to give up their haughty disdain for modernity. (6) Those who disdain wealth as crass materialism need to understand that wealth is one of the biggest life-saving factors in the world. (5) His eyes blaze with contempt and disdain for you and your people. (3) an aristocratic disdain for manual labor (4) He is also very arrogant, showing disdain for those who are not as observant or skilled as he is. To be a great and virtuous man appeared the highest honour that can befall a sensitive being to be base and vicious, as many on record have been, appeared the lowest degradation, a condition more abject than that of the blind mole or harmless worm.(1) her upper lip curled in disdain (2) Certainly, she's arrogant and her disdain for them is palpable. ![]() "A characteristic, but not exactly complimentary, congratulation," returned Laurie, still in an abject attitude, but beaming with satisfaction. He was abject before Wolf Larsen and almost grovelled to Johansen. He did not know how abject a coward the other was, and thought he was coming back intent on fighting.īut the words were hardly uttered, before the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below. Mamma was an abject slave to their caprices, but Papa was not so easily subjugated, and occasionally afflicted his tender spouse by an attempt at paternal discipline with his obstreperous son. Miserable little propitiators of a remorseless Idol, how abject we were to him! (Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) Yet mine shall not be the submission of abject slavery. (Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift) in utter scorn of all offers of help from the chambermaid of the establishment,-to condemn herself to the martyrdom of instructing. They are strong and hardy, but of a cowardly spirit, and, by consequence, insolent, abject, and cruel. Johnson must have joined him immediately, so that his abject and grovelling conduct on deck for the past few days had been no more than planned deception. ![]()
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