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Embracing Contempt: Understanding and Addressing Deep Hatred and Disapproval

Delve into the denotative and connotative meanings of contemptuous, its synonyms, and related words, exploring how it manifests in society and individuals. Learn how to navigate and combat this intense emotion.

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Embracing Contempt: Understanding and Addressing Deep Hatred and Disapproval

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  1. Contemptuous

  2. Denotative Meaning: Feeling or showing deep hatred or disapproval: feeling or showing Contempt • Connotative Meaning: Contemptuous usually brings words such as hate, set minded and crime to peoples minds, it also makes people feel scornful of what others may do. • Synonyms: disdainful, scornful • Related Words: discourteous, disrespectful, despiteful, and hateful

  3. “He owned a fine Kentucky rifle, with a cherry wood stock, and was contemptuous of the bulky carbines most of the troop had adopted” ~ Larry McMurtry, Dead Mans Walk • “Some people are Contemptuous of another race or ethnicity”

  4. Works Cited • http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/12/us/georgia-kkk-highway/ • http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contemptuous • https://www.wordnik.com/words/mock

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