vilipend
Meanings
Plural: vilipend, vilipended
Verb
- belittle
- To treat (something) as inconsequential or worthless; to despise, to look down on.
- To express a disparaging opinion of; to slander or vilify.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English vilipenden (“to treat (something) as contemptible”) [and other forms], from Old French vilipender (modern French vilipender (“to condemn, despise, revile, scorn, vilipend, vilify”)), or its etymon Latin vilipendō, from vīlis (“cheap, inexpensive; base, mean, vile, worthless”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to buy, sell”)) + pendō (“to hang, suspend; to weigh, weigh out; (figuratively) to consider, ponder”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to stretch”)). The English word is cognate with Italian vilipendere (“to despise, scorn, vilipend”), Portuguese vilipendiar (“to vilify”), Spanish vilipendiar (“to vilify”).
Synonyms
abuse, asperse, assassinate, backbite, badmouth, belibel, belittle, besmirch, blaze, blemish, blot, calumniate, calumny, cloud, contemn, cut down, defame, demonize, denigrate, deprecate, depreciate, derogate, detract, discredit, disgrace, disparage, diss, forgab, infamize, lampoon, libel, malign, misprize, monster, reproach, revile, scandal, shit-talk, slag, slander, slight, spatter, speak ill of, stab, talk shit, talk shite, talk trash, torch, traduce, trash-talk, vilify, vilipend, vituperate
Scrabble Score: 14
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