vilipend

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vilipend - v., to treat or regard as of little value; to vilify, disparage.


Do not vilipend this word. In use since the mid-15th century. Middle English, from Middle French vilipender, from Medieval Latin vīlipendere, from Latin vīlis, worthless, cheap + pendere, to weigh, estimate.

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