Usually means: Mock or scorn with contempt.
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▸ verb:  (archaic) To regard with scorn.

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disdain, bescorn, execrate, contempn, reguard, bedoubt, grudge, loathe, redoubt, beshrew, more...

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disdain, bescorn, execrate, contempn, reguard, bedoubt, grudge, loathe, redoubt, beshrew, more...



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