DESPISE in a Sentence
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119 example sentences for DESPISE, such as:
1. And he would despise you if he did know.
2. I despise anyone who is cruel to animals.
3. Though I despise these people who interfere.
4. I respect your past and despise your present.
5. He who despises small things seldom grows rich.
2. I despise anyone who is cruel to animals.
3. Though I despise these people who interfere.
4. I respect your past and despise your present.
5. He who despises small things seldom grows rich.
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Meanings and Examples of DESPISE
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despise
v. dislike intensely; regard with contempt or scorn
Classic Sentence: (108 in 8 pages)
1 Having conquered the violence of his feelings, he appeared to despise himself for being the slave of passion; and quelling the dark tyranny of despair, he led me again to converse concerning myself personally.
2 But he didn't despise himself and it didn't turn out as he had imagined.
3 Lady Middleton was ashamed of doing nothing before them, and the flattery which Lucy was proud to think of and administer at other times, she feared they would despise her for offering.
4 So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
5 And yet I did not despise him the more for it, but thought it a redeeming quality in him if he could be allowed any grace for not resisting one so irresistible as Steerforth.
6 I have shown you often enough,' said I, 'that I despise you.
7 Consequently Vronsky had the right to despise Levin, and therefore he was his enemy.
8 In spite of the fact that, preparing herself for meeting him, she had schooled herself to despise and reproach him, she did not know what to say to him, and she felt sorry for him.
9 I respect your past and despise your present.
10 It was just part of her nicey-nice way of acting which had always made Scarlett despise her.
11 And he would despise you if he did know.
12 Lily, for all her dissatisfied dreaming, had never really conceived the possibility of revolving about a different centre: it was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.
13 Though I despise these people who interfere.
14 The hour, however, afforded him some little of that protection which he appeared so much to despise.
15 He particularly remembered an old fellow who used to sit upon a cracker box in front of the store and feign to despise such exhibitions.
Example Sentence:
1 What they truly despise is the European Union, not any country.
2 I comprehended how he should despise himself for the feverish influence it exercised over him; how he should wish to stifle and destroy it; how he should mistrust its ever conducting permanently to his happiness or hers.
3 I despise anyone who is cruel to animals.
4 Some people pretend to despise the things they cannot have.
5 He is not of your order: keep to your caste, and be too self-respecting to lavish the love of the whole heart, soul, and strength, where such a gift is not wanted and would be despised.
6 Also, you guys talking about how much you despised the score is also quite good.
7 He was placed in the anomalous position of seeming to approve procedures which he despised.
8 This precept is the only way I know in the world of being loved without being despised, and feared without being hated.
9 He despised William Pitt, notwithstanding the similar views they both held.
10 Her father, who flogs knackered cars, despises his solitary, inscrutable, intellectual child and insists that she join the family around the television.
11 He who despises small things seldom grows rich.