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7 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb look down on with disdain
originFrom Middle English despisen, from Old French despis-, stem of despire, from Latin dēspicere (“to look down upon, despise, scorn”), from dē (“down”) + speciō (“to look at”). Displaced native Old English forsēon.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
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- peised 9
- speeds 9
- espies 8
- peises 8
- speise 8
- deeps 8
- pedes 8
- siped 8
- speed 8
- spide 8
- spied 8