All contempt synonyms

noun contempt

• disdain — to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn.
• distaste — dislike; disinclination.
• mockery — ridicule, contempt, or derision.
• derision — If you treat someone or something with derision, you express contempt for them.
• condescension — Condescension is condescending behaviour.
• antipathy — Antipathy is a strong feeling of dislike or hostility towards someone or something.
• ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
• malice — desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness: the malice and spite of a lifelong enemy.
• disregard — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
• defiance — Defiance is behaviour or an attitude which shows that you are not willing to obey someone.
• scorn — open or unqualified contempt; disdain: His face and attitude showed the scorn he felt.
• hatred — the feeling of one who hates; intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility.
• neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
• shame — the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, ridiculous, etc., done by oneself or another: She was overcome with shame.
• snobbery — snobbish character, conduct, trait, or act.
• repugnance — the state of being repugnant.
• stubbornness — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
• despite — You use despite to introduce a fact which makes the other part of the sentence surprising.
• indignity — an injury to a person's dignity; slighting or contemptuous treatment; humiliating affront, insult, or injury.
• slight — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
• contumely — scornful or insulting language or behaviour
• audacity — Audacity is audacious behaviour.
• disesteem — to hold in low regard; think unfavorably of.
• aversion — If you have an aversion to someone or something, you dislike them very much.
• recalcitrance — resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory.
• ignominy — disgrace; dishonor; public contempt.
• humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
• infamy — extremely bad reputation, public reproach, or strong condemnation as the result of a shameful, criminal, or outrageous act: a time that will live in infamy.
• dishonor — lack or loss of honor; disgraceful or dishonest character or conduct.
• discredit — to injure the credit or reputation of; defame: an effort to discredit honest politicians.
• disrepute — bad repute; low regard; disfavor (usually preceded by in or into): Some literary theories have fallen into disrepute.
• disfavor — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
• stigma — a mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach, as on one's reputation.
• opprobrium — the disgrace or the reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful; infamy.
• insignificancy — insignificance.
• dislike — to regard with displeasure, antipathy, or aversion: I dislike working. I dislike oysters.
• disrespect — Lack of respect or courtesy.
• disapproval — the act or state of disapproving; a condemnatory feeling, look, or utterance; censure: stern disapproval.
• disfavour — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
• dishonour — lack or loss of honor; disgraceful or dishonest character or conduct.