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Mock :: Mock (v. t.) To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride.

Pull :: Pull (v. t.) To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly..

Hang-by :: Hang-by (n.) A dependent; a hanger-on; -- so called in contempt.

Bench Warrant :: Bench warrant () A process issued by a presiding judge or by a court against a person guilty of some contempt, or indicted for some crime; -- so called in distinction from a justice's warrant..

Tit :: Tit (n.) A woman; -- used in contempt.

Endeavor :: Endeavor (v. t.) To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.

Litter :: Litter (v. t.) To give birth to; to bear; -- said of brutes, esp. those which produce more than one at a birth, and also of human beings, in abhorrence or contempt..

Trial :: Trial (n.) The state of being tried or tempted; exposure to suffering that tests strength, patience, faith, or the like; affliction or temptation that exercises and proves the graces or virtues of men..

Foutra :: Foutra (n.) A fig; -- a word of contempt.

Scurvy :: Scurvy (n.) Vile; mean; low; vulgar; contemptible.

Pshaw :: Pshaw (v. i.) To express disgust or contemptuous disapprobation, as by the exclamation Pshaw!.

Avaunt :: Avaunt (interj.) Begone; depart; -- a word of contempt or abhorrence, equivalent to the phrase Get thee gone..

Alibi :: Alibi (n.) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi..

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

Lousy :: Lousy (a.) Mean; contemptible; as, lousy knave..

Sport :: Sport (n.) Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.

Tripe :: Tripe (n.) The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural..

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

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

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

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