n. - Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.
n. - An act or expression of extreme contempt.
n. - An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision.
n. - To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain.
n. - To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride.
v. i. - To scoff; to mock; to show contumely, derision, or reproach; to act disdainfully.