The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vilipend \Vil"i*pend\, v. t. [L. vilipendere; vilis vile + pendere to weigh, to value: cf. F. vilipender.] To value lightly; to depreciate; to slight; to despise.
To vilipend the art of portrait painting.
--Longfellow.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To despise 2 To express a disparage opinion of; to slander or vilify.
Usage examples of "vilipend".
On all sides the absent were thoroughly vilipended, quarrels crisscrossed, mockery was overdone, conferees belabored one another with stones transmuted into words.
Darwin, they were at any rate not long since cordially agreed in vilipending my unhappy self, and are now saying very much what I have been saying for some years past.
Amelia he put an instant veto--menacing the youth with maledictions if he broke his commands, and vilipending the poor innocent girl as the basest and most artful of vixens.