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Spawn :: Spawn (v. t.) Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously.

Dandiprat :: Dandiprat (n.) A little fellow; -- in sport or contempt.

Volow :: Volow (v. t.) To baptize; -- used in contempt by the Reformers.

Talker :: Talker (n.) A loquacious person, male or female; a prattler; a babbler; also, a boaster; a braggart; -- used in contempt or reproach..

Fig :: Fig (n.) The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; -- used in scorn or contempt..

Poor :: Poor (superl.) Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a word of contempt..

Scrub :: Scrub (a.) Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.

Disesteem :: Disesteem (v. t.) To feel an absence of esteem for; to regard with disfavor or slight contempt; to slight.

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

Belittle :: Belittle (v. t.) To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.

Sneer :: Sneer (v. t.) To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to utter with a sneer; to say sneeringly; as, to sneer fulsome lies at a person..

Defiance :: Defiance (n.) A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition to resist; contempt of opposition.

Contumacy :: Contumacy (n.) A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned..

Scoff :: Scoff (n.) Derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach..

Disdainful :: Disdainful (a.) Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty.

Despiteous :: Despiteous (a.) Feeling or showing despite; malicious; angry to excess; cruel; contemptuous.

Rhymer :: Rhymer (n.) One who makes rhymes; a versifier; -- generally in contempt; a poor poet; a poetaster.

Brat :: Brat (n.) A child; an offspring; -- formerly used in a good sense, but now usually in a contemptuous sense..

Tolerable :: Tolerable (a.) Moderately good or agreeable; not contemptible; not very excellent or pleasing, but such as can be borne or received without disgust, resentment, or opposition; passable; as, a tolerable administration; a tolerable entertainment; a tolerable translation..

Squarish :: Square-toes (n.) A precise person; -- used contemptuously or jocularly.

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