disesteem

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In 2021, popular Christian author Beth Moore publicly abandoned the SBC over "attitudes among some key Christian leaders that smacked of misogyny, objectification and astonishing disesteem of women."

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2023

That was the spirit of the Holyoke Center, a building that is held in disesteem by the entire universe.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 1, 2015

By the time his second great war is upon him, Blimp is the grand old lobster of the cartoon, angry, hurt and bewildered to find his age and his military experience in disesteem.

From Time Magazine Archive

For many years, once I was sensible that she exaggerated or fabricated the tales she told me, I bore the humiliation of this mark of her disesteem.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Do you marvel that they held in "disesteem" the law and government that acted thus?

From The Wearing of the Green, or The Prosecuted Funeral Procession by Sullivan, A.M. (Alexander Martin)