Definition of "disesteem" [dis•es•teem]

• To hold in disfavor. (verb-transitive)
• Lack of esteem; disfavor. (noun)

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• "These brutes held me in little respect; and, after all, human nature is so strange a compound that even a philosopher dislikes being held in disesteem by the brutes of his own species."
• "It's a measure of the disesteem in which President Bush is held."
• "I would not, therefore, be thought to disesteem or dissuade the study of nature."