the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (transitive)] > put off or drive out of by (2)
transitive. To mock, jeer, insult; to express contempt for, either in word or action. Also to flout (a person) out of (something).
transitive. To mock, flout, jeer; to taunt, insult, browbeat, snub. to frump off: to put off with jeering answers. Obsolete or archaic.