Thesaurus / disesteem
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Through sympathy with their foreign confrères British writers also held him in high disesteem.
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF AMBROSE BIERCEAMBROSE BIERCEThe way to render human beings of any class despicable is to undervalue them; for disesteem will superinduce degeneracy.
FEMALE SCRIPTURE BIOGRAPHIES, VOL. IIFRANCIS AUGUSTUS COXThis does not save them from disesteem and deprecation, for they fall short under the test of honorific waste.
THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASSTHORSTEIN VEBLENWere I truly humble, I would desire disesteem, even though having in the matter in hand given no real offence.
SANTA TERESAALEXANDER WHYTEAdmiral Digby smiled at his enthusiasm; but he was too good a judge of human nature to disesteem, or even undervalue, enthusiasm.
THE ROCK OF THE LIONMOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELLIt must be remembered that Margaret's self-esteem did not really involve any disesteem of others.
MARGARET FULLER (MARCHESA OSSOLI)JULIA WARD HOWEWitchcraft was an article of belief, but was held in great disesteem.
THE WORLD OF HOMERANDREW LANGBut this is unnecessary; since, as Dr. Chalmers says, it “has fallen into utter disesteem and desuetude.”
THE RELIGION OF GEOLOGY AND ITS CONNECTED SCIENCESEDWARD HITCHCOCKNay, it is weakness and disesteem of a man's self to put a man's life upon such liedger performances.
MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONSCHARLES MACKAYThe profligate degeneracy of the Druids, however, tended to bring this also into disesteem.
THE ROUND TOWERS OF IRELANDHENRY O'BRIENWORDS RELATED TO DISESTEEM
- blow up
- bring into disrepute
- bring to naught
- censure
- defame
- degrade
- destroy
- disconsider
- disesteem
- disfavor
- disgrace
- dishonor
- disparage
- disprove
- explode
- expose
- frown upon
- knock bottom out of
- mudsling
- poke full of holes
- pooh-pooh
- puncture
- put down
- reflect on
- reproach
- ruin
- run down
- shoot
- show up
- slander
- slur
- smear
- take rug out from under
- tear down
- vilify
- abasement
- abuse
- baseness
- black eye
- blemish
- blur
- brand
- comedown
- contempt
- contumely
- corruption
- culpability
- debasement
- debasing
- defamation
- degradation
- derision
- disbarment
- discredit
- disesteem
- disfavor
- dishonor
- disrepute
- disrespect
- humbling
- humiliation
- ignominy
- ill repute
- infamy
- ingloriousness
- meanness
- obloquy
- odium
- opprobrium
- pollution
- prostitution
- put down
- reproach
- scandal
- scorn
- slander
- slight
- slur
- spot
- stain
- stigma
- taint
- tarnish
- turpitude
- venality
- abhor
- abominate
- antipathize
- avoid
- be allergic to
- be averse to
- be turned off to
- bear malice toward
- condemn
- contemn
- deplore
- despise
- detest
- disapprove
- disesteem
- disfavor
- disrelish
- eschew
- execrate
- grossed out on
- have hard feelings
- have no stomach for
- have no taste for
- loathe
- look down on
- lose interest in
- make faces at
- mind
- not appreciate
- not care for
- not endure
- not feel like
- not take kindly to
- object to
- regret
- resent
- scorn
- shudder at
- shun
- abhors
- abominates
- antipathizes
- avoids
- be turns off to
- bears malice toward
- condemns
- contemns
- deplores
- despises
- detests
- disapproves
- disesteems
- disfavors
- disrelishes
- eschews
- execrates
- grosses out on
- has hard feelings
- has no stomach for
- has no taste for
- is allergic to
- is averse to
- loathes
- looks down on
- loses interest in
- makes faces at
- minds
- not appreciates
- not cares for
- not endures
- not feels like
- not takes kindly to
- objects to
- regrets
- resents
- scorns
- shudder at
- shuns
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