All 11 Uses of

contempt
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

The contemptuous looks on their faces reflected the same feelings he had toward the whole rational, intellectual process.†
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contemptuous = showing a lack of respect

The only difference was that they were contemptuous because they didn't understand it.†
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Many of the students with A records in previous quarters were contemptuous and angry at first, but because of their acquired self-discipline went ahead and did the work anyway.†
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The Chairman, seeing this as a further rebuke to the student next to him, smiles and says contemptuously it is certainly a good idea.†
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contemptuously = with disrespect

They are anger, slight (subdivisible into contempt, spite and insolence), mildness, love or friendship, fear, confidence, shame, shamelessness, favor, benevolence, pity, virtuous indignation, envy, emulation and contempt.†
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They are anger, slight (subdivisible into contempt, spite and insolence), mildness, love or friendship, fear, confidence, shame, shamelessness, favor, benevolence, pity, virtuous indignation, envy, emulation and contempt.†
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This contempt for rhetoric, combined with Aristotle's own atrocious quality of rhetoric, so completely alienated Phaedrus he couldn't read anything Aristotle said without seeking ways to despise it and attack it.†
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It implies a contempt for efficiency...or rather a much higher idea of efficiency, an efficiency which exists not in one department of life but in life itself.†
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A strange thing that has always occurred in classes occurs again, when the unruly and wild students in the back rows have always empathized with him and been his favorites, while the more sheepish and obedient students in the front rows have always been terrorized by him and are because of this objects of his contempt, even though in the end the sheep have passed and his unruly friends in the back rows have not.†
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Definitions:

(1) (contempt as in: feels contempt towards her)
lack of respect for someone or something thought inferior -- often accompanied by a feeling of dislike or disgust

A famous saying, "familiarity breeds contempt" comes from Aesop's fable, "The Fox and the Lion". (6th century BC)

When first the Fox saw the Lion he was terribly frightened, and ran away and hid himself in the wood. Next time however he came near the King of Beasts he stopped at a safe distance and watched him pass by. The third time they came near one another the Fox went straight up to the Lion and passed the time of day with him, asking him how his family were, and when he should have the pleasure of seeing him again; then turning his tail, he parted from the Lion without much ceremony.

The moral is traditionally, "Familiarity breeds contempt"; though an alternative moral is "Acquaintance softens prejudices."
(2) (contempt as in: held in contempt of court)
the crime of willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body

Formally, this is called "contempt of court," but it is often shortened as just "contempt."