The malison of her muliebrity allows niddering males opportunity for oppugnant vilipend. From Wordnik.com. [Save the language! « Write Anything] Reference
I believe to contain more food to maintain the fibre of the soul for right living and high thinking than all pagan literature together, though I would by no means vilipend the study of the classicks. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference
‘And yet, sir, I cannot but marvel that you, Colonel, whom I noted to have so much of the amor patritz when we met in Edinburgh as even to vilipend other countries, should have chosen to establish your Lares, or household gods, procul a patrice finibus, and in a manner to expatriate yourself.’. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
She will seize her opportunity to vilipend me, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Comedians — Complete] Reference
"You are not to vilipend my counsel," said he one day to a foreign envoy. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Continental Democratic Movement, have in their leading-articles shewn themselves disposed to vilipend the late Manchester. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present] Reference
She will seize her opportunity to vilipend me, and I shall be condemned by the kind of court-martial which hurries over the forms of. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett] Reference
The fact that to the eighteenth century belong the subjects of more than half of these thirty volumes, is a proof of the fascination of the period for an author who has never ceased to vilipend it. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle] Reference
During our dark days, I read constantly in the inspired book of Job, which I believe to contain more food to maintain the fibre of the soul for right living and high thinking than all pagan literature together, though I would by no means vilipend the study of the classicks. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference
The States could hardly be blamed for their opposition to the Earl's administration, for he had thrown himself completely into the arms of a faction, whose object was to vilipend and traduce them, and it was now difficult for him to recover the functions of which the Queen had deprived him. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
'And yet, sir, I cannot but marvel that you, Colonel, whom I noted to have so much of the amor patritz when we met in Edinburgh as even to vilipend other countries, should have chosen to establish your Lares, or household gods, procul a patrice finibus, and in a manner to expatriate yourself.'. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 2] Reference
Continental-Democratic Movement, have in their leading-articles shown themselves disposed to vilipend the late Manchester Insurrection, as evincing in the rioters an extreme backwardness to battle; nay as betokening, in the English People itself, perhaps a want of the proper animal courage indispensable in these ages. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
Those niddering, olid morons who, in caliginosity of understanding, vilipend our English by attempting to exuviate words for which they cannot see any present custom. From Wordnik.com. [A Gentleman's C] Reference
Tending to fortify or increase strength skirr: a whirring or grating sound, as of the wings of birds in flight vaticinate: to foretell, prophesy vilipend: to treat or regard with contempt. From Wordnik.com. [Club Troppo] Reference
Jon D. said, "I have to say that I do believe there will be a time in my life when I will need to use the word vilipend. From Wordnik.com. [Visual Thesaurus : Online Edition] Reference
As in, Don't vilipend me!. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
A vilipend tongue it is evil. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
A vilipend tongue is the devil. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3] Reference
Denounce and vilipend them as unjust. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Reference
To vilipend the wearing of the vanished. From Wordnik.com. [VI. Lancelot: VII] Reference
To vilipend the art of portrait-painting. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Reference
'And yet, sir, I cannot but marvel that you, Colonel, whom I noted to have so much of the AMOR PATRIAE, when we met in Edinburgh, as even to vilipend other countries, should have chosen to establish your Lares, or household gods, PROCUL A PATRIEA FINIBUS, and in a manner to expatriate yourself.'. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since] Reference
Accordingly, her ladyship had no sooner summoned her own woman, and her fille de chambre, to make tea, with her page, footman, and postilion, to hand it about, (in which duty they were assisted by two richly-laced and thickly-powdered footmen of Lady Binks’s, whose liveries put to shame the more modest garb of Lady Penelope’s, and even dimmed the glory of the suppressed coronet upon the buttons,) than she began to vilipend and depreciate what had been so long the object of her curiosity. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Ronan's Well] Reference
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