contemn
verb (used with object)
to treat or regard with disdain, scorn, or contempt.
contemner
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a word derived from
contemn.
Example Sentences
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The spruce Falve, curled and anointed for the bridal, found no wife, but his mother, who called him a fool, a knave, a notorious evil-liver and contemner of holy persons.
From The Forest Lovers by Maurice Henry Hewlett
When she chose, she could be the awe-inspiring chaperon, no less completely than she was at other times the contemner of the commonplace.
From The Emancipated by George Gissing
From all of which Isabel gathered that Lord Warburton was a nobleman of the newest pattern, a reformer, a radical, a contemner of ancient ways.
From The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James
For which reason, you, contemner of every sublime aspiration, I contemn!
From Chantecler Play in Four Acts by Edmond Rostand
"Such a man ignorant of letters, and a contemner of Zeus!"
From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Richard Garnett
