Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| contemn | to despise or scorn. |
| contempt | the feeling of one who views something as mean, vile, or worthless. |
| contemptible | worthy of contempt. |
| contemptuous | manifesting contempt. |
| contemptuously | (Adv.) CONTEMPTUOUS, manifesting contempt. |
| contumelious | haughtily insolent. |
| contumeliously | (Adv.) CONTUMELIOUS, haughtily insolent. |
| contumely | contemptuous or insulting treatment arising from arrogance. |
| daine | (Shakesp.) to deign. |
| deign | to lower oneself to do something. |
| despicable | worthy of being despised. |
| despicableness | the state of being despicable. |
| despicably | (Adv.) DESPICABLE, worthy of being despised. |
| despisable | despicable; contemptible. |
| despiser | one who despises. |
| despite | in spite of; (noun) a looking down with contempt; (verb, obs) to treat with contempt. |
| disdain | scorn; (verb) to scorn. |
| disdainful | full of or expressing disdain. |
| disdainfully | (Adv.) DISDAINFUL, full of or expressing disdain. |
| disdainfulness | the state of being disdainful. |
| fico | (Shakesp.) a fig, a gesture of contempt. |
| figo | (Shakesp.) a fig, a gesture of contempt. |
| fleerer | one who fleers. |
| flout | to treat eg a law with contemptuous disregard. |
| floutingly | (Adv.) FLOUTING. |
| indignance | (Arch.) indignation, contempt. |
| indignify | (Arch.) to treat insultingly. |
| lightly | in a light way; (verb) to slight or make light of. |
| mesprise | (Spenser) scorn, slighting. |
| mesprize | (Spenser) scorn, slighting. |
| misesteem | to lack esteem for; to disrespect. |
| misprise | to scorn, slight, undervalue; to be mistaken. |
| misprize | to scorn, slight, undervalue; to be mistaken. |
| narquois | (Fr.) mocking; malicious. |
| opprobrious | expressing contemptuous reproach; bringing disgrace. |
| opprobriously | (Adv.) OPPROBRIOUS, expressing contemptuous reproach; bringing disgrace. |
| opprobrium | something that brings disgrace; infamy, contempt. |
| outscorn | (Shakesp.) to face out with scorn. |
| phooey | an exclamation of contempt, scorn etc. |
| razz | (Sl.) a raspberry; (verb) to blow a raspberry. |
| scorn | contempt; (verb) to treat or regard with contempt. |
| scorner | one who scorns. |
| sdaine | (Obs.) to disdain. |
| sdayn | (Obs.) to disdain. |
| sdeign | (Obs.) to disdain. |
| sdeigne | (Obs.) to disdain. |
| sdeignfull | (Obs.) disdainful. |
| sdeignfully | (Adv.) SDEIGNFULL, disdainful. |
| sdein | (Obs.) to disdain. |
| slighting | contemptuous. |
| slightingly | (Adv.) SLIGHTING. |
| sneerful | given to sneering. |
| sneeringly | (Adv.) SNEERING. |
| sneery | given to sneering. |
| snickery | tending to snicker. |
| sniffish | haughty. |
| sniffishly | (Adv.) SNIFFISH, haughty. |
| sniffishness | the state of being sniffish, haughty. |
| snoot | (Coll.) the nose (verb) to regard contemptuously |
| snub | a check, a rebuke (verb) to treat with contempt or neglect |
| snubbe | (Arch.) a snub. |
| snubbiness | the quality of being snubby, inclined to snub or check. |
| snubbingly | (Adv.) SNUBBING. |
| snubbish | inclined to snub or check. |
| snubby | inclined to snub or check. |
| spurn | to reject with contempt. |
| spurner | one who spurns. |
| supercilious | haughtily contemptuous. |
| superciliously | (Adv.) SUPERCILIOUS, haughtily contemptuous. |
| toploftical | high and mighty; haughty. |
| toploftily | (Adv.) TOPLOFTY, high and mighty. |
| toploftiness | the state of being toplofty, high and mighty. |
| toplofty | high and mighty, haughty. |
| tossily | (Adv.) TOSSY, tossing the head, as in scorn or pride. |
| tossy | tossing the head, as in scorn or pride. |
| vilipend | (Lat.) to treat as of small worth; to contemn, disparage. |
| vilipender | one who vilipends, treats with contempt. |