vilipending

He was in a drunken humour — in a sullen humour — in a thoughtless and vilipending humour — in every humour but a fighting one.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

But a speaker who can certainly be made amenable to authority for vilipending in debate the heart of any specified opponent, may with safety attribute all manner of ill to the agglomerated hearts of a party.

Phineas Redux 2004

On George’s intercourse with Amelia he put an instant veto—menacing the youth with maledictions if he broke his commands, and vilipending the poor innocent girl as the basest and most artful of vixens.

XVIII. Who Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought 1917

It has been my fate to receive a good deal more vilipending than (I hope) I deserve.

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896

But a speaker who can certainly be made amenable to authority for vilipending in debate the heart of any specified opponent, may with safety attribute all manner of ill to the agglomerated hearts of a party.

Phineas Redux 1873

But to return to Mr. Romanes: however much he and Mr. Allen may differ about the merits of Mr. Darwin, they were at any rate not long since cordially agreed in vilipending my unhappy self, and are now saying very much what I have been saying for some years past.

Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals Samuel Butler 1868

Richard Hunt was summoned for certain articles implying contempt, and for vilipending his lordship's jurisdiction.

The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856

But a speaker who can certainly be made amenable to authority for vilipending in debate the heart of any specified opponent, may with safety attribute all manner of ill to the agglomerated hearts of a party.

Phineas Redux Anthony Trollope 1848

No parasite of Maurice could more effectively pay his court and more confidently hope for promotion or reward than by vilipending Barneveld.

PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

No parasite of Maurice could more effectively pay his court and more confidently hope for promotion or reward than by vilipending Barneveld.

Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War — Complete (1609-15) John Lothrop Motley 1845