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despisal
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despisal
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | despising |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, animosity, contempt, disdain, hate, hatred, loathing, malevolence, scorn |
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| Main Entry: | disdain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hate; indifference |
| Synonyms: | antipathy, arrogance, aversion, contempt, contumely, derision, despisal, despisement, despite, dislike, disparagement, hatred, haughtiness, hauteur, insolence, loftiness, pride, ridicule, scorn, sneering, snobbishness, superbity, superciliousness |
| Notes: | contempt is a more engaged, more involved feeling of disapproval than disdain |
| Antonyms: | admiration, esteem, favor, like, love, praise, respect |
| Main Entry: | scorn |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contempt toward something |
| Synonyms: | contemptuousness, contumely, derision, despisal, despisement, despite, disdain, disparagement, disregard, jeering, mockery, ridicule, sarcasm, scoffing, scornfulness, slight, sneer, sport, taunting, teasing |
| Antonyms: | approval, delight, pleasure |
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| Concept: | Contempt. |
| Category: | 2. Moral sentiments |
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-nouns
contempt, disdain, scorn, sovereign contempt; despisal, despiciency; despisement; vilipendency, contumely; slight, sneer, spurn, by-word; despect., contemptuousness; scornful eye; smile of contempt; derision (disrespect)., [State of being despised] despisedness.
-verbs
despise, contemn, scorn, disdain, feel contempt for, view with a scornful eye; disregard, slight, not mind; pass by (neglect)., look down upon; hold cheap, hold in contempt, hold in disrespect; think nothing of, think small beer of; make light of; underestimate; esteem slightly, esteem of small or no account; take no account of, care nothing for; set no store by; not care a straw, sneeze at (unimportance) [more]; set at naught, laugh in one's sleeve, laugh up one's sleeve, snap one's fingers at, shrug one's shoulders, turn up one's nose at, pooh-pooh, "damn with faint praise" [Pope]; whistle at, sneer at; curl up one's lip, toss the head, traiter de haut enbas; laugh at (be disrespectful)., point the finger of scorn, hold up to scorn, laugh to scorn; scout, hoot, flout, hiss, scoff at., turn one's back upon, turn a cold shoulder upon; tread upon, trample upon, trample under foot; spurn, kick; fling to the winds (repudiate); send away with a flea in the ear.
-adjectives
contemptuous; disdainful, scornful; withering, contumelious, supercilious, cynical, haughty, bumptious, cavalier; derisive., contemptible, despicable; pitiable; pitiful (unimportant); despised; downtrodden; unenvied.
-adverbs
contemptuously.
-phrases
"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].
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| Antonyms: | respect |
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