Vilipend

Word VILIPEND
Character 8
Hyphenation vil i pend
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Vilipend"

What do we mean by vilipend?

To view or treat with contempt; despise. transitive verb

To speak ill of; disparage. transitive verb

To express a disparaging or moan opinion of; slander; vilify; treat slightingly or contemptuously.

To express disparaging opinions of a person; uso vilification.

To value lightly; to depreciate; to slight; to despise. transitive verb

To despise verb

To express a disparaging opinion of; to slander or vilify. verb

Belittle verb

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The word "vilipend" in example sentences

The malison of her muliebrity allows niddering males opportunity for oppugnant vilipend. ❋ Unknown (2008)

With mansuetude compossible with my muliebrity, I condemn those niddering, olid morons who, in caliginosity of understanding, vilipend our English by attempting to exuviate words for which they cannot see any present custom. ❋ Angry Professor (2008)

‘And yet, sir, I cannot but marvel that you, Colonel, whom I noted to have so much of the amor patritz when we met in Edinburgh as even to vilipend other countries, should have chosen to establish your Lares, or household gods, procul a patrice finibus, and in a manner to expatriate yourself.’ ❋ Unknown (2004)

I believe to contain more food to maintain the fibre of the soul for right living and high thinking than all pagan literature together, though I would by no means vilipend the study of the classicks. ❋ Various (N/A)

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. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)

The fact that to the eighteenth century belong the subjects of more than half of these thirty volumes, is a proof of the fascination of the period for an author who has never ceased to vilipend it. ❋ John Morley (1880)

Edinburgh, as even to vilipend other countries, should have chosen to establish your Lares, or household gods, _procul a patri finibus, _ and in a manner to expatriate yourself. '' ❋ Unknown (1877)

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. ❋ John Hay (1870)

She will seize her opportunity to vilipend me, and I shall be condemned by the kind of court-martial which hurries over the forms of ❋ George Meredith (1868)

She will seize her opportunity to vilipend me, and ❋ George Meredith (1868)

During our dark days, I read constantly in the inspired book of Job, which I believe to contain more food to maintain the fibre of the soul for right living and high thinking than all pagan literature together, though I would by no means vilipend the study of the classicks. ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)

And I would premise, that, although I can no longer resist the evidence of my own senses from the stone before me to the ante-Columbian discovery of this continent by the Northmen, _gens inclytissima_, as they are called in a Palermitan inscription, written fortunately in a less debatable character than that which I am about to decipher, yet I would by no means be understood as wishing to vilipend the merits of the great ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)

Her education had been entirely conventual, and those who dwell in the inner sanctums and fortresses of the Church have a curiously instinctive aversion to the certainties and investigations of medical -- especially of surgical -- science; and the Contessa Violante was, perhaps, hence prepared to vilipend and set at naught the dicta of the scientific authorities. ❋ Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1851)

"You are not to vilipend my counsel," said he one day to a foreign envoy. ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)

The States could hardly be blamed for their opposition to the Earl's administration, for he had thrown himself completely into the arms of a faction, whose object was to vilipend and traduce them, and it was now difficult for him to recover the functions of which the Queen had deprived him. ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)

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