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contempt
Synonyms and Antonyms of contempt
open dislike for someone or something considered unworthy of oneʼs concern or respect
abhorrence, abomination, detestation, execration, hate, hatred, loathing, lovelessness
cattiness, hatefulness, invidiousness, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, meanness, spite, spitefulness
aversion, disgust, distaste, horror, odium, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion
animosity, antagonism, antipathy, bitterness, enmity, gall, grudge, hostility, jealousy, pique, resentment
bile, jaundice, rancor, spleen, venom, vindictiveness, virulence, vitriol
aspersion, belittlement, deprecation, depreciation, detraction, diminishment, disparagement
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