Definition of "vilipended" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of vilipend. (verb)

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• "Halsall. she asserts, will not return any answer, and although she is only in private lodgings she is continually being thwarted and vilipended by Carney, ‘whose tongue needs clipping’."
• "In the meantime, he paced up and down with a gun on his shoulder, pretending to be a sportsman -- happy in his hopes, happy in the clear sunshine, happy because he knew no better -- as happens to a great many other people in the gay days of their youth, in this most unjustly condemned and vilipended world."
• "But now, (said he,) the avarice of preastis, and the ignorance of thair office, has caused it altogitther to be vilipended; [78] for the preast, (said he,) whose dewitie and office is to pray for the people, standis up on Sounday, and cryes, 'Ane hes tynt"