despised

Verb

simple past tense and past participle of despise
The little boy loved peas but despised spinach.

Adjective

(comparative more despised, superlative most despised)

Hated; viewed with scorn.
The dictator's cruelty made him the most despised person in the region.

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His own people despised him for his wickedness.
He despised them because of his old age and experience of life.
I despised my employment and Howie was unemployed.
He despised her video game playing and art, instead saying she needed a man capable of keeping her feet on the ground long enough for her to focus on doing something real with her life.
They who were looked upon as servants to the king being then called ` Cavaliers,' and the other of the rabble contemned and despised under the name of ` Roundheads.'" Baxter ascribes the origin of the term to a remark made by Queen Henrietta Maria at the trial of Strafford; referring to Pym, she asked who the roundheaded man was.

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