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Thing :: Thing (n.) A diminutive or slighted object; any object viewed as merely existing; -- often used in pity or contempt.

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

Whelp :: Whelp (n.) A child; a youth; -- jocosely or in contempt.

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..

Contempt :: Contempt (n.) The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn..

Expose :: Expose (v. t.) To disclose the faults or reprehensible practices of; to lay open to general condemnation or contempt by making public the character or arts of; as, to expose a cheat, liar, or hypocrite..

Revile :: Revile (v. t. & i.) To address or abuse with opprobrious and contemptuous language; to reproach.

Jade :: Jade (n.) A young woman; -- generally so called in irony or slight contempt.

Dandiprat :: Dandiprat (n.) A little fellow; -- in sport or contempt.

Misprision :: Misprision (n.) A neglect, negligence, or contempt..

Spurn :: Spurn (n.) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous tratment.

Scorn :: Scorn (n.) Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.

Prittle-prattle :: Prittle-prattle (n.) Empty talk; trifling loquacity; prattle; -- used in contempt or ridicule.

Hussy :: Hussy (n.) A worthless woman or girl; a forward wench; a jade; -- used as a term of contempt or reproach.

Bloat :: Bloat (n.) A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow..

Burlesque :: Burlesque (a.) Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical..

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

Fy :: Fy (interj.) A word which expresses blame, dislike, disapprobation, abhorrence, or contempt. See Fie..

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

Hething :: Hething (n.) Contempt; scorn.

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