despise
de·spise (di spīz′)
despise
v.
despise implies a strong emotional response toward that which one looks down upon with contempt or aversion to despise a hypocrite; to scorn is to feel indignation toward or deep contempt for, often with the implication of rejection or refusal to scorn the offer of a bribe; disdain implies a haughty or arrogant contempt for what one considers beneath one's dignity to disdain flattery; contemn, chiefly a literary word, implies a vehement disapproval of a person or thing as base, vile, or despicable See also syn. study at hate.
Object
- prophesyings: The, very word, " despise not prophesyings, " may shew to what it leads.
- everything: If Polly Toynbee and Harold Pinter despise everything we stand for that is a GOOD sign.
- gift: Should I despise the great gift offered me in the eloquent silence of her eyes?
Adjective complement
- most: In fact, it looks like he despises most of these subjects.
Modifying Another Word
- truly: These women did truly despise the pontifical quality of woman.
Used with why or when
- what: How apt then to despise what we have not!
Present participle complement
- drive: I particularly despise driving on hot, blue-sky days, because the sheer level of wank on the roads increases by orders of magnitude.
Odi profanum vulgus et arceo; Favete linguis; carmina non prius Audita Musarum sacerdos Virginibus puerisque canto. I despise the uninitiated mob and I warn them off: keep your tongues well-omened; I, priest of the Muses, am singing songs, never heard before, to girls and boys.
Try notto despise yourselftoomuchöit's onlya conceit.
I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.
Why does my Muse only speak when she is unhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy When I am happy I live and despise writing For my Muse this cannot but be dispiriting.
Il y a dans les hommes plus de choses a' admirer que de choses a' me¤ priser. There are more things to admire in people than to despise.
Now the Lord saith,Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
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