VILIPEND

Date "VILIPEND" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references)

Etymology: Vilipend \Vil"i*pend\, transitive verb. [Latin expression vilipendere; vilis vile pendere to weigh, to value: compare to the French expression vilipender.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: VILIPEND

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Detraction	Verb: detract, derogate, decry, deprecate, depreciate, disparage; run down, cry down; backcap; belittle; sneer at; (contemn); criticize, pull to pieces, pick a hole in one's coat, asperse, cast aspersions, blow upon, bespatter, blacken, vilify, vilipend; avile; give a dog a bad name, brand, malign; muckrake; backbite, libel, lampoon, traduce, slander, defame, calumniate, bear false witness against; speak ill of behind one's back.
Disapprobation	Execrate; exprobate, speak daggers, vituperate; abuse, abuse like a pickpocket; scold, rate, objurgate, upbraid, fall foul of; jaw; rail, rail at, rail in good set terms; bark at; anathematize, call names; call by hard names, call by ugly names; avile, revile; vilify, vilipend; bespatter; backbite; clapperclaw; rave against, thunder against, fulminate against; load with reproaches.
Disrespect	Speak slightingly of; disparage; (dispraise); vilipend, vilify, call names; throw dirt, fling dirt; drag through the mud, point at, indulge in personalities; make mouths, make faces; bite the thumb; take by the beard; pluck by the beard; toss in a blanket, tar and feather.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Translations: VILIPEND

Language		Translations for "VILIPEND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Portuguese		vilipendiar (vilify), rebaixar (abase, banalize, belittle, bemean, bust, crab, debase, decry, degrade, demean, demote, denigrate, depreciate, diminish, disparagement, flank, humble, humiliated, lower, mark down, put down, skiver, undercut, vulgarize). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: VILIPEND

Derivations
	Words beginning with "VILIPEND": vilipended, vilipending, vilipends. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"VILIPEND" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: villipend. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Rhyming with "VILIPEND"

Anagrams: VILIPEND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-l-n-p-v"
	-2 letters: divine, lipide.
	-3 letters: devil, indie, ivied, levin, lined, lipid, lipin, lived, liven, livid, piled, pilei, pined, plied, vined.
	-4 letters: deil, deli, deni, diel, dine, dive, evil, idle, lend, lied, lien, line, lipe, live, nevi, nide, nidi, pein, pend, pied, pile, pili, pine, pled, plie, veil, vein, veld, vend, vide, vied, vile, vine.
	-5 letters: del.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-i-i-l-n-p-v"
	+1 letter: vilipends.
	+2 letters: pavilioned, vilipended.
	+3 letters: vilipending.
	+4 letters: providential, unprivileged.
	+5 letters: improvidently, misdeveloping.
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