Crossword-Solution: CONTEMN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Contemn | v. t. | To view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “CONTEMN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| He despises the people he has to work for | 1 answer |
| COME it over | 3 answers |
| shrug away | 4 answers |
| look down | 10 answers |
| Detest | 11 answers |
| Abominate | 16 answers |
| flout | 18 answers |
| Despise | 19 answers |
| Abhor | 21 answers |
| Scorn | 50 answers |
| Disdain | 55 answers |
| CALL names | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CONTEMN (5)
Nor thou his malice and false guile contemn; Suttle he needs must be, who could seduce Angels, nor think superfluous others aid.
Among the Heathen (for throughout the world To me is not unknown what hath been done Worthy of memorial) canst thou not remember Quintius, Fabricius, Curius, Regulus? For I esteem those names of men so poor, Who could do mighty things, and could contemn Riches, though offered from the hand of kings.
Secure in innocence, contemn them all, And, decently arrayed, in honor fall.” * * * * * “Say, what is honor? ‘Tis the finest sense Of justice which the human mind can frame.” The keenest sufferings entailed by war are not on the battle-field, nor in the hospital.
Her life had hitherto flowed on in a uniform and gentle tenor, and happy for her had not its present smoothness of current resembled that of the stream as it glides downwards to the waterfall! “So, Lucy,” said her father, entering as her song was ended, “does your musical philosopher teach you to contemn the world before you know it? That is surely something premature.
His love-making had been brief as it was sweet; but would he on reflection contemn her for forwardness? How could she have been so simple as to suppose she was in a position to behave as she had done! Thus she mentally blamed her ignorance; and yet in the centre of her heart she blessed it a little for what it had momentarily brought her.
Quotes with CONTEMN (3)
He thought to himself that there could be no greater torture in the world than at the same time to love and to contemn.
I have had so many Dwellings, Nat, that I know these Streets as well as a strowling Beggar: I was born in this Nest of Death and Contagion and now, as they say, I have learned to feather it. When first I was with Sir Chris. I found lodgings in Phenix Street off Hogg Lane, close by St Giles and Tottenham Fields, and then in later times I was lodged at the corner of Queen Street and Thames Street, next to the Blew Posts in Cheapside. (It is still there, said Nat stirring up fro…
Young poets are too apt to consider themselves “children of the mist” — they must dwell apart from men and contemn their kind, or they fear they shall be only taken for common-place characters. They forget that poetry is the language which speaks to all hearts — and that instead of cherishing the sacred fire as a lonely light, as one that burns in a charnel house, they should bring it forth in its beauty and brightness as a guide to the pleasant places and sparkling waters of…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1977).