despisal
- n a feeling of scornful hatred
- Both were brought up in a professional tradition which demands despisal of Clark Howell and his stodgy old Constitution (circulation: 99,000) and, of late years, hatred of Georgia .
- They smashed statues of Mahatma Gandhi (a Gujarati himself), burned Desai in effigy, flourished pictures of Nehru hung with old shoes as a gesture of despisal.