vilipend

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Apodeictic, muliebrity, mansuetude, even caducity, caliginosity, nitid, agrestic, roborant or vilipend have Latin or Greek roots that are very familiar to me and most high school graduates.

From Time Magazine Archive

He would be a thin spirit who should gain a lady's friendly regard, and then vilipend because she knew no better, or could not choose.

From Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

He whose skilful hand Painted that lovely picture has not right To vilipend the art of portrait-painting.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

This general admonition being addressed to the team at large, the zagal descended to details, and proceeded to vilipend the galloping beasts separately, beginning with the leader.

From Castilian Days by Hay, John