despisement

noun

Definition of despisementnext
as in disdain
open dislike for someone or something considered unworthy of one's concern or respect an expression of total despisement for the "unwashed masses"

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  1. disdain
  2. contempt
  3. hatred
Noun
  • Too many liberals forgot this, which explains how a figure like Trump, with his boisterous and transgressive disdain for liberal pieties, could be reelected to the presidency.
    Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • The southpaw hasn't voiced any disdain for the franchise and the Braves value him tremendously.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of disdain
Noun
  • Sheridan, while working for Arpaio, was found in civil contempt of court in connection with the Melendres racial profiling lawsuit.
    Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
  • On Tuesday, he was released from a federal prison after serving four months for contempt of Congress over his defiance of a subpoena from investigators into the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.
    Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of contempt
Noun
  • As an intimacy grows between Cassie and Bryan, Berryman again dances with shadows of Blanche and Stanley, but with all the hatred removed, the poisons of class and time and gender drained away.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
  • The hatred isn’t just coming from anonymous fringe posters either.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of hatred
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