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contempt, disdain, scorn, sovereign contempt
despisal, despiciency
despisement
vilipendency, contumely
slight, sneer, spurn, by-word
despect. contemptuousness etc. adj.
scornful eye
smile of contempt
derision etc. (disrespect) Disrespect. despisedness [State of being despised].

despise, contemn, scorn, disdain, feel contempt for, view with a scornful eye
disregard, slight, not mind
pass by etc. (neglect) Neglect. look down upon
hold cheap, hold in contempt, hold in disrespect
think nothing of, think small beer of
make light of
underestimate etc. Underestimation
esteem slightly, esteem of small or no account
take no account of, care nothing for
set no store by
not care a straw, sneeze at etc. (unimportance) Unimportance
set at naught, laugh in one's sleeve, laugh up one's sleeve, snap one's fingers at, shrug one's shoulders, turn up one's nose at, pooh-pooh, damn with faint praise" [Pope]
whistle at, sneer at
curl up one's lip, toss the head
laugh at etc. (be disrespectful) Disrespect. point the finger of scorn, hold up to scorn, laugh to scorn
scout, hoot, flout, hiss, scoff at. turn one's back upon, turn a cold shoulder upon
tread upon, trample upon, trample under foot
spurn, kick
fling to the winds etc. (repudiate) Rejection
send away with a flea in the ear.

a dismal universal hiss, the sound of public a dismal universal hiss, the sound of public scorn" [Paradise Lost]
I had rather be a dog and bay the moon than such a I had rather be a dog and bay the moon than such a Roman" [Julius Caesar].

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