Contemn is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 136 anagrams from letters in contemn (cemnnot).
1375-1425; late Middle English contempnen (Middle French) Latin contemnere to despise, scorn, equivalent to con- con- + temnere to slight; see
There was, in truth, danger lest the Rhodians should contemn the Romans! Perhaps this may appear to you to be only an old wife's tale, which you will contemn. I contemn the world when I think on it, and myself when I translate it. I have a husband who makes war upon me because I contemn his bed and board. Leave it to miserable fools, to contemn the wisdom of the Most High. Reward my temperance with some lawful favour, Though you contemn my person. I determined to contemn and despise her; and steadily to refuse the interview. I do not ask that you should pity these women with whom I have to deal, still less that you should contemn them. So it is with women: you should not contemn women because they rouse a devil in man. A religion,” said I, “in which you yourself do not believe, and which you contemn.Examples for contemn