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contempt
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beneath contempt
exceedingly contemptible. What you have done is beneath contempt. Your rude behavior is beneath contempt.
See also: beneath

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Prov. People do not respect someone they know well enough to know his or her faults. The movie star doesn't let anyone get to know him, because he knows that familiarity breeds contempt.
See also: breed

in contempt (of court)

showing disrespect for a judge or courtroom procedures. The bailiff ejected the lawyer who was held in contempt. The judge found the juror in contempt of court when she screamed at the attorney.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
something that you say which means if you know someone very well or experience something a lot, you stop respecting them You two are going to find it difficult living and working together. Familiarity breeds contempt, you know.
See also: breed
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9) The Court concluded that if such authority was refused, it would lead "to the total annihilation of the power of the House of Representatives to guard itself from contempts, and leaves it exposed to every indignity and interruption that rudeness, caprice, or even conspiracy, may meditate against it.
Executive privilege and the U.S. attorneys firings by Rozell, Mark J.; Sollenberger, Mitchel A. / Presidential Studies Quarterly
Relations between the two had been degenerating for some time, and in Chicago, their contempts built to detonation.
Vale, Vidal by Rago, Joseph / New Criterion
Saleem Mohammed, 38, was convicted of multiple contempts of court by taking money upfront from customers.
SITE FOR SORE EYES; praised as Britain's worst builder jailed by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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