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.

• utterly: The shows, therefore, and the toys were all very primitive, and would be utterly despised by the young folk now.

• widely: A sport which is at once the best-loved and most widely despised will be seen in its brightest colors.

• once: Now my desire is to live long enough and at liberty to take my grandchild to the crappy entertainments I once despised.

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.