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Concept: Contempt.
Category: 2. Moral sentiments
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"a dismal universal hiss, the sound of public scorn" [Paradise Lost]; "I had rather be a dog and bay the moon than such a Roman" [Julius Caesar].
Antonyms: respect
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Concept: [Undue assumption of superiority.] Insolence.
Category: 4. Extrinsic Affections
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one's bark being worse than his bite; "beggars mounted run their horse to death" [Henry VI]; quid times? Caesarem vehis [Plutarch].
Antonyms: servility
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