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Whigling :: Whigling (n.) A petty or inferior Whig; -- used in contempt.

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

Snuff :: Snuff (v. i.) To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offense..

Audacity :: Audacity (n.) Reckless daring; presumptuous impudence; -- implying a contempt of law or moral restraints.

Kit :: Kit (m.) A group of separate parts, things, or individuals; -- used with whole, and generally contemptuously; as, the whole kit of them..

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

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

Pretty :: Pretty (superl.) Mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically; as, a pretty trick; a pretty fellow..

Attach :: Attach (v. t.) To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4..

Contemptuousness :: Contemptuousness (n.) Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness.

Scorn :: Scorn (n.) An act or expression of extreme contempt.

Contemptibly :: Contemptibly (adv.) In a contemptible manner.

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

Despisal :: Despisal (n.) A despising; contempt.

Scorn :: Scorn (n.) To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain.

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..

Lording :: Lording (n.) A little lord; a lordling; a lord, in contempt or ridicule..

Carpetbagger :: Carpetbagger (n.) An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865).

Squarish :: Square-toes (n.) A precise person; -- used contemptuously or jocularly.

Scrub :: Scrub (a.) Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.

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