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

Enterprise :: Enterprise (n.) That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise..

Jump :: Jump (n.) An effort; an attempt; a venture.

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

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

Rhymery :: Rhymery (n.) The art or habit of making rhymes; rhyming; -- in contempt.

Nickname :: Nickname (n.) A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation..

Peat :: Peat (n.) A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously.

Disdain :: Disdain (v. t.) A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.

Guess :: Guess (n.) An opinion as to anything, formed without sufficient or decisive evidence or grounds; an attempt to hit upon the truth by a random judgment; a conjecture; a surmise..

Fig :: Fig (n.) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. See Fico..

Little :: Little (a.) Small in dignity, power, or importance; not great; insignificant; contemptible..

Mock :: Mock (v. i.) To make sport contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or jeering manner.

Finesse :: Finesse (v. i.) To attempt, when second or third player, to make a lower card answer the purpose of a higher, when an intermediate card is out, risking the chance of its being held by the opponent yet to play..

Indignity :: Indignity (n.) Any action toward another which manifests contempt for him; an offense against personal dignity; unmerited contemptuous treatment; contumely; incivility or injury, accompanied with insult..

Plead :: Plead (v. t.) To argue in support of a claim, or in defense against the claim of another; to urge reasons for or against a thing; to attempt to persuade one by argument or supplication; to speak by way of persuasion; as, to plead for the life of a criminal; to plead with a judge or with a father..

Starn :: Starmonger (n.) A fortune teller; an astrologer; -- used in contempt.

Spurn :: Spurn (v. t.) To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with contempt.

Entry :: Entry (n.) The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea; the entry of air into the blood; an entry upon an undertaking..

Pulpiteer :: Pulpiteer (n.) One who speaks in a pulpit; a preacher; -- so called in contempt.

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