vilipend

• Collins 'editors know that old words die hard - and that some people will vilipend (regard with contempt) any execution without a fair trial. —  TIME.com: Top Stories
• She will seize her opportunity to vilipend me, and —  The Tragic Comedians — Volume 3
• "You are not to vilipend my counsel," said he one day to a foreign envoy. —  Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1613-15
• A vilipend tongue is the devil, —  Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3
• Denounce and vilipend them as unjust, —  The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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