Contemn is valid Scrabble Word

Is contemn a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is contemn valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for CONTEMN in dictionary:

VERB:

to despise or scorn
treat or regard with contempt
To view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn.
look down on with disdain
regard with contempt

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to scorn

Words related to CONTEMN

contemned14 contemner13 contemners14 contemnible17 contemnibly20 contemning15 contemnor13 contemns12

Words that contain CONTEMN

contemns12 contemned14 contemner13 contemnor13 contemners14 contemning15 contemnors14 contemnible17 contemnibly20 uncontemned16

How to use CONTEMN in a sentence

They contemn the calling of their father, and will, nine times in ten, marry a mechanic in preference to a farmer.
We know that she is indebted to that revelation which she presumes to ridicule, and contemn, for every semblance of truth or energy which she displays.
I contemn him too much to enter into competition with him.
We are like elderly writers who tend to repeat their own beloved mannerisms, and who contemn and decry the work of younger men, despairing of the future.
But Lord Byron! How must the haughty spirit of Lara and Harold contemn the subaltern sneaking of our modern tuft-hunter.
Let us show that we have the magnanimity to contemn petty misunderstandings.
Words like these, according to the accuser, tended to incite the young to contemn the established constitution, rendering them violent and headstrong.
How dared her father contemn her mother so? Her father was not a fool.
These Protestants deny and contemn that symbol, as they despise and contemn in their wantonness the ordinances of God and the authority of His Vicar.
Worldly people, sordid people, self-seekers, and promotion-hunters, contemn him as an amiable lunatic.

Now, the American is taught to contemn all such old-world ideas as respect of persons.
Let others, my lovely Charmer, talk of a blind Being that disposes their Hearts, I contemn their low Images of Love.
Beware that you do not rashly contemn the experience of others.
An ass raised in this way is fit to get mules when he is three years old, nor will he contemn the mares because he has become used to their kind.
On the other hand, laxity of discipline, and the disorder which will result from it, will only lead the pupils to contemn their teacher and to hate their school.
Do not, because the Romans voluntarily desire your friendship, contemn that which you ought to have prayed for, nay, laboured with all your might to obtain.
Some out of pride have seemed to contemn ill reports when they have found they could not avoid them, but none out of strength of reason, though many have pretended to it.
Let us the causes of our fear condemn, Then Death at his approach we shall contemn.
Therefore, to love or to hate, to like or contemn, to ply this way or that way to good or to bad, ye shall have as ye use a child in his youth.
And all the world knows it, and thinks that we do contemn her Grace by such boldness.

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