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contemnere and from con-
intensive prefix +
temnere "to slight, scorn";
contemptuous appeared in 1529.
Ekman and
Friesen (1986)
identified a
specific facial...
- than
being compensatory, at
common law
damages may
instead be nominal,
contemptuous or exemplary.
Among the Saxons, a
monetary value called a
weregild was...
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derogatory (critical or disrespectful),
pejorative (disapproving or
contemptuous), or
insulting manner.
Giaour Word for a
person who is not Muslim, but...
-
Francigenum (lit. 'French work'); the term
Gothic was
first applied contemptuously during the
later Renaissance, by
those ambitious to
revive the architecture...
- 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...
-
ethnic group in
Transylvania in 1733, but
legislation continued to use
contemptuous adjectives (such as "tolerated" and "admitted") when
referring to them...
- Soundgarden, whom Q
magazine noted were "in
thrall to '70s rock, but
contemptuous of the genre's
overt ****ism and machismo". Jon
Wiederhorn of
Guitar World...
- preoccupations, just as 'self-contradiction' is
always one of his most
contemptuous comments.
Blake abhorred slavery, and
believed in
racial and ****ual equality...
- 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...
-
revolutionaries National Convention in
France in 1793, they
somewhat contemptuously referred to him in
written do****ents and
spoken address as "Citizen...
