What is another word for Contemning?

Pronunciation: [kəntˈɛmɪŋ] (IPA)

Contemning is a word that signifies a feeling of disdain or disregard for something or someone. There are many synonyms for contemning, including contempt, scorn, disdain, disrespect, derision, mockery, and disdainful. All of these words describe a feeling of disapproval or disinterest in someone or something. Some other synonyms include belittling, insulting, and degrading. These words are often used in the context of discussing negative emotions towards people, events, or things that are seen as unworthy or unimportant. Overall, these synonyms help to convey a strong sense of negativity and scornfulness that is associated with the feeling of contemning.

What are the hypernyms for Contemning?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Contemning

To gain their confidence and love, sympathize with their innocent feelings, talk to them privately, preserve a mild dignity without Contemning their ignorance and degradation.
"Thoughts on the Religious Instruction of the Negroes of this Country"
William Swan Plumer
The absurd pride of ancestry occasions many of our young gentlemen to treat those whom they deem their inferiors by birth with haughtiness, and often with something worse; forgetting that by this means they immediately cut themselves off as it were from society: for, by Contemning those who are a supposed step below them, they encourage and incur contempt from the next immediately above them.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft
But she called in Clifton, to be her auxiliary; and he fell into the same pettish, half-haughty, half-Contemning kind of manner, in which he had so improperly indulged, previous to the accident of the lake, in France.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft

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