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Insolence :: Insolence (n.) The quality of being insolent; pride or haughtiness manifested in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others; arrogant contempt; brutal impudence.

Snag :: Snag (n.) A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth..

Despiteful :: Despiteful (a.) Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate; malicious.

Derision :: Derision (n.) The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule..

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

Contemptuousness :: Contemptuousness (n.) Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness.

Chip :: Chip (n.) Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously..

Despite :: Despite (n.) To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously.

Hoot :: Hoot (v. t.) To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.

Mockery :: Mockery (n.) Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous merriment; derision; ridicule.

Puppy :: Puppy (n.) A name of contemptuous reproach for a conceited and impertinent person.

Jacquerie :: "Jacquerie (n.) The name given to a revolt of French peasants against the nobles in 1358, the leader assuming the contemptuous title, Jacques Bonhomme, given by the nobles to the peasantry. Hence, any revolt of peasants..

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

Costard :: Costard (n.) The head; -- used contemptuously.

Medley :: Medley (n.) A mixture; a mingled and confused mass of ingredients, usually inharmonious; a jumble; a hodgepodge; -- often used contemptuously..

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

Counterjumper :: Counterjumper (n.) A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemptuously.

Violation :: Violation (n.) An act of irreverence or desecration; profanation or contemptuous treatment of sacred things; as, the violation of a church..

Missy :: Missy (n.) An affectionate, or contemptuous, form of miss; a young girl; a miss..

Mahound :: Mahound (n.) A contemptuous name for Mohammed; hence, an evil spirit; a devil..

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