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Present participle for to dismiss, fail to value, or underestimate something or someone
Present participle for to mock or express scorn at something or someone
Present participle for to reject with disdain or contempt
Present participle for to consider to be unworthy of one's consideration
Verb
▲
Present participle for to dismiss, fail to value, or underestimate something or someone
disregarding
underappreciating
underrating
undervaluing
holding cheap
underestimating
understating
diminishing
trivializing
US
depreciating
minimizing
US
making light of
minimising
UK
trivialising
UK
taking for granted
belittling
deprecating
misprizing
minifying
playing down
derogating
pooh-poohing
disparaging
dissing
denigrating
discrediting
dismissing
knocking
treating lightly
scoffing at
decrying
discounting
vilipending
scorning
devaluing
selling short
sneering at
bad-mouthing
writing off
putting down
running down
defaming
deriding
downgrading
panning
slating
slamming
rubbishing
deflating
detracting
picking holes in
slagging off
detracting from
taking to pieces
talking down
crying down
having a go at
laughing off
hitting out at
doing a hatchet job on
dragging through the mud
pulling apart
doing down
trashing
ridiculing
lessening
reducing
mocking
slurring
aspersing
brushing aside
pouring scorn on
kissing off
making little of
trash-talking
look down one's nose at
glossing over
laughing at
criticizing
US
downplaying
vilifying
maligning
reviling
abusing
lowering
condemning
underplaying
disdaining
roasting
traducing
marginalizing
US
smearing
bashing
criticising
UK
marginalising
UK
shrugging off
taking down
de-emphasizing
casting aspersions on
degrading
cheapening
slandering
weakening
censuring
slighting
dispraising
underemphasizing
calumniating
rapping
blistering
disesteeming
scorching
thinking too little of
looking down on
thinking little of
dumping on
setting little store by
tearing down
doing an injustice to
soft-pedalling
toning down
soft-pedaling
setting no store by
treating as unimportant
cutting down to size
taking down a peg
rating too low
demeaning
attacking
disapproving
squashing
ripping
misjudging
debasing
squelching
shooting down
cutting to the quick
taking a swipe at
shooting full of holes
denouncing
underweening
knocking off
bringing down
writing down
disgracing
humbling
moderating
contemning
faulting
softening
spurning
discountenancing
finding fault with
whitewashing
mitigating
deemphasizing
extenuating
qualifying
tempering
minimalizing
taking lightly
brushing off
making light
not doing justice
libeling
US
impugning
libelling
UK
blasting
undermining
devaluating
decreasing
sneering
vituperating
withdrawing
backbiting
speaking badly of
pulling to pieces
tearing into
speaking ill of
flaming
putting hooks in
subtracting from
cutting rate
taking away from
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to mock or express scorn at something or someone
sniggering
sneering
ridiculing
scorning
deriding
taunting
jeering
gibing
scoffing
insulting
disdaining
twitting
disparaging
lampooning
slighting
affronting
belittling
girding
detracting
underrating
burlesquing
caricaturing
cracking
decrying
dumping
fleering
flouting
jesting
laughing
rallying
satirising
UK
satirizing
US
slamming
swiping
travestying
laughing at
quipping at
ranking out
sneezing at
sniffing at
giving Bronx cheer
holding up to ridicule
looking down on
turning up one's nose
putting down
mocking
jiving
slurring
gibing at
curling your lip at
taking a swipe at
jeering at
dumping on
treating with contempt
turning your nose up at
saying contemptuously
having a crack at
making cutting remarks about
scoffing at
scouting
sneering at
poking fun at
teasing
ragging
making fun of
skewering
jibing
taking the piss out of
ribbing
chaffing
jibing at
pooh-poohing
making sport of
shooting down
panning
kidding
poking mullock at
taking the mickey
riding
needling
bantering
contemning
quizzing
razzing
knocking
hazing
hooting
pillorying
despising
ragging on
flouting at
making a fool of
heckling
tormenting
booing
roasting
joshing
dissing
reviling
outraging
quipping
digging
jabbing
dismissing
louting
spurning
japing
chiacking
humiliating
winding up
heaping scorn on
making jokes about
goofing on
showing up
laughing out of court
showing contempt for
treating contemptuously
running down
look down one's nose at
slinging off at
thumbing nose at
railing at
making a monkey out of
showing contempt
disrespecting
discrediting
discounting
making a monkey of
provoking
treating with disdain
hassling
mimicking
baiting
bothering
goading
guying
offending
sledging
reproaching
slagging off
slapping
upbraiding
fleering at
scouting at
making light of
digging at
cartooning
twittering
deflating
unmasking
exposing
sending up
getting at
abhorring
shunning
swipeing at
making a laughing-stock
exposing to ridicule
making someone a laughing stock
poking borack
pulling one's leg
holding up to shame
making a game of
condemning
hissing
catcalling
frowning on
regarding with contempt
looking down upon
holding in disdain
lookng down at
abusing
interrupting
barracking
hectoring
sniping
blowing raspberries
shouting down
shouting disapproval
shouting at
putting on
calling names
catcalling at
booing at
giving a hard time
poking fun
making a crack
whistling at
denigrating
vilifying
pouring scorn on
doing a number on
detracting from
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to reject with disdain or contempt
spurning
snubbing
dismissing
rebuffing
repudiating
slighting
contemning
cutting
declining
disdaining
ignoring
jilting
refusing
rejecting
scorning
repelling
repulsing
snouting
giving someone the brush-off
giving the brush
cold-shouldering
giving someone the go-by
scoffing at
sneering at
brushing off
knocking back
looking down on
telling someone where to get off
balking at
cutting dead
freezing out
sneezing at
stiff-arming
putting down
treating with contempt
turning your nose up at
giving the cold shoulder
giving the bum's rush
fending off
Verb
▲
Present participle for to consider to be unworthy of one's consideration
disdaining
scorning
despising
slighting
abhorring
hating
deriding
belittling
disregarding
misprizing
undervaluing
contemning
rejecting
dissing
disrespecting
sneering at
sniffing at
snubbing
spurning
abominating
disparaging
pouring scorn on
regarding with contempt
scouting
showing contempt for
looking down on
putting down
pooh-poohing
looking down upon
turning your nose up at
look down one's nose at
treating with contempt
scoffing at
heaping scorn on
turning down
shunning
mocking
reviling
dismissing
gibing
repudiating
jeering at
refusing
laughing at
spitting on
running down
curling your lip at
spitting in the face of
turning back on
spitting in the eye of
treating as inferior
holding in disdain
condemning
frowning on
lookng down at
sneering
loathing
disliking
detesting
disfavouring
disrelishing
execrating
discommending
discountenancing
disapproving
opposing
misliking
disfavoring
deploring
discouraging
reproving
resisting
disesteeming
finding repellent
recoiling from
frowning upon
having no liking for
holding in disfavour
regarding with disgust
regarding with distaste
not taking kindly to
not appreciating
finding intolerable
finding distasteful
viewing with disfavour
having no stomach for
not standing for
viewing with dislike
having a low opinion of
holding no brief for
taking exception to
taking a dim view of
thinking wrong
finding unacceptable
having no taste
objecting to
not going for
having no taste for
disapproving of
looking askance at
not thinking much of
having an aversion to
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