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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...
- his own
admission on "fast women"
rather than
studying and whom Lee
contemptuously noted had been
awarded a
degree at
Cambridge that he did not deserve...
- with the Enemy",
after years of
being mentioned. A loud, high-pitched
contemptuous woman, she
neglects her son. She
implies she
misses Nelson's
father (who...
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States (2008 Edition) as follows: Any
commissioned officer who uses
contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary...
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produced at 20%
capacity due to lack of investment. ****rno
himself was
contemptuous of
macroeconomics and was
unable and
unwilling to
provide practical solutions...
- of
depriving something of its
sacred character, or the disrespectful,
contemptuous, or
destructive treatment of that
which is held to be
sacred or holy...
- 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...
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other personality traits,
including self-esteem, entitlement, and
contemptuousness. Self-esteem
While the
exact difference between high self-esteem and...
