vilipend
/ˈviləˌpend
/verb [with object] archaic
1Regard as worthless or of little value; despise.Mr. Donovan, though he never refused Mr. Wigan's hospitality, balanced the account by vilipending his friend's extravagant habits....
- As a women's movement pioneer, Susan B. Anthony fought against the dictums of those who would vilipend women by treating them as second-class citizens.
- Remember when the Washington Post was vilipended and qualified as a gossip column when it published the first article about the Watergate?
2Speak slightingly or abusively of; vilify.You will get nothing but praise for your book, and I shall be vilipended for mine....
- This message is to update you all how I'm holding up under the scurrilous, calumnious and vilipending charges against me.
- In addition negative stereotyping is omnipresent in the public eye through stage theatrical presentations ridiculing or vilipending these characters.
Derivatives
vilipender
vilipensive
- double-cross
- double-crosser
- double-cut
- double-cut roll
- double dagger
- double date
- Doubleday, Abner
- double-dealer
- double-dealing
- double-decker
- double-declutch
- double decomposition
- double denim
- double-density
- doubled haploid
- double digging
- double-digit
- double-dip
- double-dipper
- double-dip recession
- double dissolution
- double dot
- double-double
- double down
- double dribble