- than
being compensatory, at
common law
damages may
instead be nominal,
contemptuous or exemplary.
Among the Saxons, a
monetary value called a
weregild was...
-
contemnere and from con-
intensive prefix +
temnere "to slight, scorn";
contemptuous appeared in 1529.
Ekman and
Friesen (1986)
identified a
specific facial...
-
derogatory (critical or disrespectful),
pejorative (disapproving or
contemptuous), or
insulting manner.
Giaour Word for a
person who is not Muslim, but...
- own" or "to each what he deserves".
During World War II the
phrase was
contemptuously used by the ****s as a
motto displa**** over the
entrance of Buchenwald...
- of
depriving something of its
sacred character, or the disrespectful,
contemptuous, or
destructive treatment of that
which is held to be
sacred or holy...
-
interchangeably as synonyms. Beelzebub,
meaning "Lord of Flies", is the
contemptuous name
given in the
Hebrew Bible and New
Testament to a
Philistine god...
-
ambitions that went
beyond the musical—indeed,
McLaren was at
times openly contemptuous of the band's
music and punk rock generally. "Christ, if
people bought...
-
Capability Immaturity Model (CIMM) in
software engineering is a
parody acronym, a semi-serious
effort to
provide a
contrast to the
Capability Maturity...
-
ethnic group in
Transylvania in 1733, but
legislation continued to use
contemptuous adjectives (such as "tolerated" and "admitted") when
referring to them...
-
revolutionaries National Convention in
France in 1793, they
somewhat contemptuously referred to him in
written do****ents and
spoken address as "Citizen...
