Contempt and Hating

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Contempt noun - Open dislike for someone or something considered unworthy of one's concern or respect.

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Hating and contempt are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hating" instead a noun "Contempt".

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Contempt and hating are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Contempt" instead a noun "Hating".

Nearby Words: hate, hated, hater

He was a racist, hating everyone who wasn't a white Englishman, holding even English-Americans in contempt.

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Al was by no means a racist (he even had at least one close friend who was African-American), but he did have contempt for some white ethnicities (hating the French, for instance).

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This might be something of a subversion though, since his berating of Joker for not "loving the virgin Mary", on the other hand, smacks of a Catholic bias that goes beyond hating everyone equally, and he expresses genuine contempt for communists (remember, Cold War) and "heathens".

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