Contemptuous vs Obeast - What's the difference?
contemptuous | obeast |
Showing contempt; expressing disdain; showing a lack of respect.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= (slang) A contemptuous and very obese or overweight person
* 1981 , New York Magazine , Jan 12, 1981, page 107
* 2006 , Norman Green, Shooting Dr. Jack , page 235
* 2009 , Harry F. Dahms, Nature, Knowledge and Negation , page 323
(religion) A intelligent demonic influence or entity
* 2006 , Oneal McQuick, Fasting & Prayers , page 23
* 2007 , Orlando Constantine, Angels, Let's Talk , page 39
* 2008 , Orlando Constantine, Angels, Let's Talk 2008-2009 Follow Up Notes
As an adjective contemptuous
is showing contempt; expressing disdain; showing a lack of respect.As a noun obeast is
(slang) a contemptuous and very obese or overweight person.contemptuous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
Derived terms
* contemptuouslyobeast
English
Noun
(en noun)- The doctor told me I was a little obeast .
- “There's gotta be a ladder up there, and I can't hoist you, you's obeast .”
- Fast Food Nation, where, as I overheard one new mother in my town recently note, children are likely to grow up
'' obeast'
- I mentioned something of intelligent nature created by devils called an obeast or called that by the blues; in the article, “Real Weapons of Mass Destruction.”
- For an obeast in a human, the human being dead, have the abilities that Christ displayed upon resurrection.
- if they or the obeast or any is successful in yanking a brain or head part, nerve, blood vessel, etc, then as the scripture has said, “without thy mind would I do nothing” (Philemon 1:14)