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Ridicule :: Ridicule (n.) Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of laughter; banter; -- a term lighter than derision.

Cub :: Cub (n.) Jocosely or in contempt, a boy or girl, esp. an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy..

Byword :: Byword (n.) The object of a contemptuous saying.

Flout :: Flout (v. i.) To practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to fleer; -- often with at.

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

Fico :: Fico (n.) A fig; an insignificant trifle, no more than the snap of one's thumb; a sign of contempt made by the fingers, expressing. A fig for you..

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

Profanation :: Profanation (v. t.) The act of violating sacred things, or of treating them with contempt or irreverence; irreverent or too familiar treatment or use of what is sacred; desecration; as, the profanation of the Sabbath; the profanation of a sanctuary; the profanation of the name of God..

Deride :: Deride (v. t.) To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at.

Priestery :: Priestery (n.) Priests, collectively; the priesthood; -- so called in contempt..

Upbraid :: Upbraid (v. t.) To treat with contempt.

Ludicrous :: Ludicrous (a.) Adapted to excite laughter, without scorn or contempt; sportive..

Dam :: Dam (n.) A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother..

Scorn :: Scorn (n.) To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride.

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

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

Pooh-pooh :: Pooh-pooh (v. t.) To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if by saying pooh! pooh!.

Pshaw :: Pshaw (interj.) Pish! pooch! -- an exclamation used as an expression of contempt, disdain, dislike, etc..

Contemptuously :: Contemptuously (adv.) In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully.

Sarcasm :: Sarcasm (n.) A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest..

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