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What is another word for contemns?

Pronunciation: [kəntˈɛmz] (IPA)

Contemns is a word that refers to a feeling of intense dislike or disdain towards someone or something. There are several synonyms for contemns that can be used in different contexts. Some examples of synonyms for contemns include despises, disdains, detests, hates, and loathes. Each of these words expresses a deep revulsion or aversion towards a person or thing. Other synonyms for contemns could also include scorn, abhor, abominate, and deplore. All of these words convey a strong negative emotion or feeling, and can be used to describe a wide range of situations where there is a strong sense of disapproval or dislike.
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Then, Adeimantus, I said, the worthy disciples of philosophy will be but a small remnant: perchance some noble and well-educated person, detained by exile in her service, who in the absence of corrupting influences remains devoted to her; or some lofty soul born in a mean city, the politics of which he contemns and neglects; and there may be a gifted few who leave the arts, which they justly despise, and come to her;-or peradventure there are some who are restrained by our friend Theages' bridle; for everything in the life of Theages conspired to divert him from philosophy; but ill-health kept him away from politics.
"Plato's Republic"
Plato
The sophist may argue that age begets philosophy, and that philosophy contemns all worldly things; yet certain it is that the book-hunter, one of the most philosophical of beings, remains on the look-out for bargains to the very end of his career.
"The Book-Hunter at Home"
P. B. M. Allan
Thought triumphs over Nature and contemns it; Nature takes its revenge and swallows up thought in its abyss.
"Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History"
Auguste Sabatier

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  • The genuine mind of man, thirsting for its native home, society contemns the gewgaws that separate him from it. Titles are like circles drawn by the magician's wand, to contract the sphere of man's felicity.
    Thomas Paine

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