vilipend
Americanverb (used with object)
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to regard or treat as of little value or account.
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to vilify; depreciate.
verb
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to treat or regard with contempt
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to speak slanderously or slightingly of
Other Word Forms
- vilipender noun
Etymology
Origin of vilipend
1425–75; late Middle English < Late Latin vīlipendere, equivalent to Latin vīli ( s ) cheap ( vile ) + pendere to consider ( pensive )
Example Sentences
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Apodeictic, muliebrity, mansuetude, even caducity, caliginosity, nitid, agrestic, roborant or vilipend have Latin or Greek roots that are very familiar to me and most high school graduates.
From Time Magazine Archive
He whose skilful hand Painted that lovely picture has not right To vilipend the art of portrait-painting.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
He would be a thin spirit who should gain a lady's friendly regard, and then vilipend because she knew no better, or could not choose.
From Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
This general admonition being addressed to the team at large, the zagal descended to details, and proceeded to vilipend the galloping beasts separately, beginning with the leader.
From Castilian Days by Hay, John
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