contemn

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"Did not William Blake contemn reason and paint the ghost of a flea?"

From Time Magazine Archive

You admire, but while you admire you wonder, you reprobate, you contemn.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

It seemed to her that men who play golf-croquet and watch cricket matches have no business to contemn men who risk their lives in the air.

From Marriage by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Crafty men contemn them, wise men use them, simple men admire them; for they teach not their own use, but that there is a wisdom without them and above them won by observation.

From The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature by Parsons, Frank

Vile as these motives seem, they are too near akin to the general springs of human action for us to contemn them.

From A Trip to Cuba by Howe, Julia Ward