condemned

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She is influential — her cultic following included the young Alan Greenspan — but she is contemned by many intellectuals and is no patron saint to the bloggers at Secular Right.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2011

Some 20 years ago he became converted to the remarkable manipulative surgery of the then young Herbert Atkinson Barker**— who was not an orthodox surgeon, whom the medical profession contemned for " irregular" practices.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir Henri, therefore, has been crying loudly that Russian oil is "stolen" and that Standard Oil should be contemned for touching it, that Royal Dutch-Shell should be patronized for shunning it.

From Time Magazine Archive

He charges the Pl�iade with having contemned the classics of French poetry; the new school advocated the disuse of the complicated metrical forms merely because they were too difficult.

From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Spingarn, Joel Elias

Had the most amiable lady in Christendom contemned Count Gerhard, she must have sent her knight into the field to make me reparation.

From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin