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contemn

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7 lettersPronunciation /kənˈtɛm/Part of speech verbSorted cemnnotStarts with CEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. look down on with disdain

Word origin

From Middle English contempnen, from Old French contemner, from Latin contemnō (“to scorn”). See also contempt.

Used in a sentence

  • I was perturbed by the suspicion that the anguish of love contemned was alloyed in her broken heart with the pangs, sordid to my young mind, of wounded vanity.

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