contemn
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"Did not William Blake contemn reason and paint the ghost of a flea?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Then why must I, Who had in me a hope That rivalled Raphael's or Leonardo's, Keep, cozened so, that I contemn her shame?
From The Immortal Lure by Cale Young Rice
If we contemn what others admire, we make ourselves odious; if we admire what they despise, we are equally ridiculous.
From Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There by William Hazlitt
One does not contemn Calne on account of its misfortunes, but it must always have been a slipshod place.
From The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
His Good Word for Everybody Indeed, he has a good word for everybody, and discerns laudable qualities in some whom the world has agreed to contemn and cast out.
From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe
