disesteem

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In 2021, popular Christian author Beth Moore publicly abandoned the SBC over "attitudes among some key Christian leaders that smacked of misogyny, objectification and astonishing disesteem of women."

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2023

That was the spirit of the Holyoke Center, a building that is held in disesteem by the entire universe.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 1, 2015

By the time his second great war is upon him, Blimp is the grand old lobster of the cartoon, angry, hurt and bewildered to find his age and his military experience in disesteem.

From Time Magazine Archive

For many years, once I was sensible that she exaggerated or fabricated the tales she told me, I bore the humiliation of this mark of her disesteem.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

For he had hollowed it out and had secretly poured in gold, indicating thereby that the disesteem which he suffered for his madness served to conceal a sound and estimable intelligence.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Dio, Cassius