vilipend
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Is vilipend a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive, dated, formal) To treat (something) as inconsequential or worthless; to despise, to look down on.Synonyms: belittle, contemn, misprize, slightdatedformaltransitive
2. (transitive, dated, formal) To express a disparaging opinion of; to slander or vilify.Examples: "But we desire, most unhesitatingly to condemn and vilipend a system of continual abuse, intended to fall upon the provincial Government, but in reality reaching and injuring the public at large."; "But, for all their feint of nonchalance, these young persons have no other task in life but to explain and extol their own conduct and to vilipend their critics and opponents."Synonyms: abuse, disparage, derogate, assassinate, asperse, backbite, badmouth, belibeldatedformaltransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary