bespotten — meaning in English
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English meaning
- deride verb To mock someone or something harshly and with contempt.
- flout verb To openly ignore or disobey a rule or law, showing no respect for it.
- mock verb To make fun of someone, often by imitating them; to ridicule.
- pillory noun A framework on a post, with holes for the hands and head, used as a means of punishment and humiliation.
- ridicule verb To mock or make fun of someone or something in a scornful way.
Senses
bespotten is used for these senses in English:
- deride (transitive) To laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly; to ridicule, to scorn.
- flout (transitive, archaic) To scorn.
- make fun of (idiomatic, informal) To tease, ridicule or make jokes about, generally in a pejorative manner.
- mock To make fun of, especially by mimicking; to taunt.
- pillory (transitive) To subject to humiliation, scorn, ridicule or abuse.
- ridicule (transitive) To criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of.
deride — full definition
- verb To mock someone or something harshly and with contempt.
- verb To laugh at someone in an unkind, mocking way.
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