megvet

• contemptuous, disdainful

• bought

• contempt, disdain, flout, loathing, scorn, spurn

• contemptuously, disdainfully, scornfully

• despised

• to spring, sprang, sprung

• contemptible, despicable, pitiable, pitiful

• to bend, bent, to buckle, to get out of true, to give, gave, given, to spring, sprang, sprung, to warp, to wind, wound

• deflection, deflexion, distortion, spring, warpage

• pitifully

• out of true, warped, wrung

• to put sg out of true

• to gain a foothold, to gain a footing, to get a foothold, to get a footing

• raspberry

• despicable, opprobrious

• to hiss disdain

• toss, toss of the head, tossing

• to speak disparagingly of sy

• to flout

• it's not to be despised, not to be sniffed at, that's not to be sneezed at

• byword