- 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...
-
Kings 9:33–37). Later, in the Book of Revelation, the name
Jezebel is
contemptuously attributed to a
prophetic woman of Thyatira, whom the author, through...
- from Dublin, Ireland. The
Oxford English Dictionary defines it as a "
contemptuous designation for a self-****ertive
worthless fellow",
citing the earliest...
- not a country, or a province, or a
state –
although some
refer to it
contemptuously as a statelet: the
least controversial word
appears to be jurisdiction...
- of the Dom
people in the
Middle East, as
English gypsy or
tinker with
contemptuous connotations. The Al-Qamus Al-Muhit
glosses the term as
equivalent to...
-
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...
