'Contempt' in the Bible
And the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen's act, will say it this day to all the king's princes, and there will be contempt and anger enough.
He poureth contempt upon nobles, and slackeneth the girdle of the mighty;
Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door, ...
Let the lying lips become dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.
He poureth contempt upon nobles, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste;
Roll off from me reproach and contempt; for I observe thy testimonies.
Be gracious unto us, O Jehovah, be gracious unto us; for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.
A wound and contempt shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
When the wicked cometh, there cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame, to everlasting contempt.
and my temptation, which was in my flesh, ye did not slight nor reject with contempt; but ye received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.