Contempt vs Ostentation - What's the difference?
contempt | ostentation |
(uncountable) The state of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn, disdain.
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, title= The state of being despised or dishonored; disgrace.
(legal) Open disrespect or willful disobedience of the authority of a court of law or legislative body.
Ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.
(obsolete) A show or spectacle.
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As nouns the difference between contempt and ostentation
is that contempt is (uncountable) the state of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn, disdain while ostentation is ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.contempt
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(wikipedia contempt)Alternative forms
* (obsolete) * (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.}}
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* contemptible * contempt of Congress * contempt of court * contempt of Parliament * contemptuous * familiarity breeds contemptExternal links
* * *ostentation
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Noun
(en-noun)- Let her awhile be secretly kept in,
- And publish it that she is dead indeed:
- Maintain a mourning ostentation ;