-
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...
-
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...
-
Capability Immaturity Model (CIMM) in
software engineering is a
parody acronym, a semi-serious
effort to
provide a
contrast to the
Capability Maturity...
-
negative classist connotation to poor city-dwellers. It is also used
contemptuously in
other Spanish-speaking countries,
especially Bolivia and Peru, to...
-
Francigenum (lit. 'French work'); the term
Gothic was
first applied contemptuously during the
later Renaissance, by
those ambitious to
revive the architecture...
- 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...
-
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...
