to insult; to ridicule; to disgrace

to mock; to bully and insult

to humiliate; to bully

contempt; to despise

to scold; to abuse

(literary) foreign aggression; external threat; humiliation inflicted by outsiders

to insult

to bully

(literary) to treat with disrespect

internal disunity dissolves at the threat of an invasion from outside (idiom)