vilipend
Example Sentences
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No individual hero is celebrated in The Four Days, no single villain vilipended.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bodin must have been delighted with this story, though perhaps as a Protestant he might have vilipended the infallible decision of the Pope in its favor.
From Among My Books First Series by Lowell, James Russell
Courage is needed in the profession and maintenance of the true and the right, when denied, assailed, or vilipended.
From A Manual of Moral Philosophy by Peabody, Andrew P. (Andrew Preston)
I expect to get well vilipended not only by the anti-vivisection folk, for the most of whom I have a hearty contempt, but apropos of Bacon.
From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Huxley, Thomas Henry
She had slighted and vilipended himself even, while accepting his gifts and gallantries.
From The Golden Dog by Kirby, William
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