(a) A feeling or attitude of contempt, scorn; in (with) ~, disdainfully, contemptuously; taken on (til, with) ~, to treat (sth.) with contempt; (b) contemptuous hostility; anger, hatred.

(a) Contemptuous treatment, mockery, abuse; an indignity; for ~, as a show of contempt, scornfully; in (on) ~ of, in contempt of (sb.), in order to show scorn for; don ~, to subject (sb.) to an indignity; maken ~ at, deride (sb.); (b) driven to (til) ~, to hold (sb.) up to scorn, ridicule (sb.), make a mockery of; laughen to (til) ~, laugh (sb.) to scorn, jeer at; (c) sacrilegious conduct; irreligious or grossly immoral act or behavior; ~ of self, defilement of oneself; (d) a mockery, jest; half for ~, half in jest, partly for amusement; holden (for) no ~, to regard (sth.) as no joke, treat (sth.) seriously.

(a) An object of scorn or mockery; (b) degradation, disgrace, dishonor.