Meaning & use
Contemned
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Treated with contempt; regarded or dismissed as worthless or beneath consideration.
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The philosopher was contemned by his peers for challenging long-held assumptions.
Her once-popular novels were later contemned by critics as sentimental and shallow.
A note on using this word
The past tense of 'contemn,' a formal and somewhat literary verb; it is the root behind the more familiar word 'contempt.'
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