Definition of contemns Contemns
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What does contemns mean?
Part of speech
🔤- contemns, verb, present, 3rd person singular of contemn (infinitive).
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| contemn - look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately" | ||
| despise, scorn, disdain | ||
| detest, hate dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards; "I hate Mexican food"; "She detests politicians" | ||
| look down on regard with contempt; "the new neighbor looks down on us because our house is very modest" | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- contemn (v. t.)
To view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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kon-tem′, v.t. to despise: to neglect, to disregard.—n. Contem′ner. [Fr.,—L. contemnĕre, -temptum, to value little—con, inten., temnĕre, to slight.]
Part of speech
🔤- contemn, verb, present, 1st person singular of contemn (infinitive).
- contemn, verb (infinitive).
