familiarity breeds contempt
used to say that if youknowsomeone very well youstoprespectingthem because you haveseenall oftheirbadqualities
亲不敬，熟生蔑。Feelings of dislike and hatred
- abhorrence
- abomination
- anathema
- animosity
- animus
- disgust
- dislike
- distaste
- distastefully
- enmity
- misandrist
- misandry
- misanthrope
- misanthropy
- misogynist
- repulsion
- sore point
- technophobe
- transmisogyny
- vitriol
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familiarity breeds contempt
Familiaritybreedscontempt, and this coming food shortage has been referred to so often that we are in danger of being complacent about it.
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The human being is, however, essentially adaptable, and eventuallyfamiliaritybreedscontempt.
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The big problem is thatfamiliaritybreedscontempt.
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I do not thinkfamiliaritybreedscontempt, but the issues discussed on television are bound to open up another area of consultation and public debate.
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Our greatest assets are often overlooked becausefamiliaritybreedscontempt.
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I suppose it could be a case offamiliaritybreedscontempt.
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It is becausefamiliaritybreedscontempt.
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We all know thatfamiliaritybreedscontempt.
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Things that may well be familiar so long as familiarity breeds affection had much better become unfamiliar whenfamiliaritybreedscontempt.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As the saying goes,familiaritybreedscontempt.
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