vilipend

present singular third person vilipends · participle present vilipending · participle past vilipended · past vilipended · first person past singular vilipended · past second person singular vilipended · present singular third person vilipends · archaic present singular third person vilipendeth · past singular third person vilipended · past plural vilipended · past subjunctive vilipended · participle present vilipending · participle past vilipended

1. datedformaltransitiveTo treat (something) as inconsequential or worthless; to despise, to look down on.

   Synonyms: belittle, contemn, misprize, slight, bagatellize, banalize, belittle, cut down

2. datedformaltransitiveTo express a disparaging opinion of; to slander or vilify.

   But, for all their feint of nonchalance, these young persons have no other task in life but to explain and extol their own conduct and to vilipend their critics and opponents.

   1917, O. W. Firkins, The Nation, The Nation Company, page 176

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   But we desire, most unhesitatingly to condemn and vilipend a system of continual abuse, intended to fall upon the provincial Government, but in reality reaching and injuring the public at large.

   1853 July 10, “Evil Birds”, in The Colonist, New Zealand: Nelson, page 4

   Synonyms: abuse, disparage, derogate, assassinate, asperse, backbite, badmouth, befoul