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Criticaster :: Criticaster (n.) A contemptible or vicious critic.

Corpse :: Corpse (n.) A human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuously..

Scoff :: Scoff (n.) To show insolent ridicule or mockery; to manifest contempt by derisive acts or language; -- often with at.

Mockery :: Mockery (n.) The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance..

Despicable :: Despicable (a.) Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift..

Redoubtable :: Redoubtable (a.) Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero; hence, valiant; -- often in contempt or burlesque..

Paddy :: Paddy (n.) A jocose or contemptuous name for an Irishman.

Prune :: Prune (v. i.) To dress; to prink; -used humorously or in contempt.

Hething :: Hething (n.) Contempt; scorn.

Trample :: Trample (v. i.) To tread in contempt; -- with on or upon.

Versemonger :: Versemonger (n.) A writer of verses; especially, a writer of commonplace poetry; a poetaster; a rhymer; -- used humorously or in contempt..

Doughface :: Doughface (n.) A contemptuous nickname for a timid, yielding politician, or one who is easily molded..

Bantling :: Bantling (n.) A young or small child; an infant. [Slightly contemptuous or depreciatory..

Misprision :: Misprision (n.) A neglect, negligence, or contempt..

Dandyling :: Dandyling (n.) A little or insignificant dandy; a contemptible fop.

Deride :: Deride (v. t.) To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at.

Ranter :: Ranter (n.) One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt..

Swaddling :: Swaddler (n.) A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist.

Despite :: Despite (n.) An act of malice, hatred, or defiance; contemptuous defiance; a deed of contempt..

Sneer :: Sneer (v. i.) To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression..

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