treat+with+contumely
21taunt — Synonyms and related words: Bronx cheer, Parthian shot, accuse, affront, allege, annoy, arraign, article, aspersion, atrocity, back answer, banter, barrack, book, brickbat, bring accusation, bring charges, bring to book, bug, burlesque, call… …
22disdain — Synonyms and related words: abhor, abjure, airs, antipathetic, antipathy, aristocratic disdain, arrogance, arrogant, audacity, averse, aversion, be above, be contemptuous of, bold front, boldness, brash bearing, brashness, brassiness, bravado,… …
23insult — Synonyms and related words: abase, abuse, affront, airs, arrogance, asperse, aspersion, atrocity, barb, be above, be contemptuous of, brickbat, call names, care nothing for, clannishness, cliquishness, contemn, contempt, contemptuousness,… …
24jeer — Synonyms and related words: Parthian shot, affront, aspersion, atrocity, back answer, barrack, boo, brickbat, bullyrag, call names, catcall, caustic remark, chaff, comeback, contempt, contumely, crack, cut, cut at, cutting remark, decry, deride,… …
25scorn — Synonyms and related words: abhor, airs, arrogance, be above, be contemptuous of, care nothing for, clannishness, cliquishness, contemn, contempt, contemptuousness, contumely, deprecation, deride, derision, despisal, despise, despite, disavow,… …
26slight — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. slender, slim, frail, delicate; trivial; meager, scant. See unimportance. v. t. ignore, cut, snub, rebuff; scamp, neglect, disdain. n. snub, rebuff, cut. See contempt. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1.… …
27insult — I. n. Affront, offence, indignity, outrage, abuse, contumely. II. v. a. Affront, offend, abuse, treat with insolence, offer an indignity to, show or display insolence toward, commit an indignity upon …
28abuse — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. misuse, misapply; mistreat, injure, damage; malign, scold, berate, vilify, curse; flay. n. injury, desecration; insult. See disapprobation, badness, deception, impurity, wrong.Ant., praise,… …
29abuse — 1. verb 1) the judge abused his power Syn: misuse, misapply, misemploy; exploit, take advantage of 2) he was accused of abusing children Syn: mistreat, maltreat, ill treat, treat badly; molest, interfere with …
30abuse — Synonyms and related words: abuse of office, addiction, afflict, aggrieve, assail, assailing, assault, atrocity, attack, bark at, batter, befoul, befoulment, belittle, berate, berating, betongue, betray, betrayal, bewitch, billingsgate, bitter… …
