Despise

Examples

• If I must disgrace myself by such a bargain with any man, I prefer that it be one I already despise. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• But I know you despise me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Dislike is always more or less associated with contempt--I can see nothing in the Count to despise. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I _do_ think myself a fool, Shirley, in some respects; I _do_ despise myself. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• With that polite speech he took my hand--oh, how I despise myself! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The townsmen despise and cheat the nomads, the nomads ill-treat and despise the townsfolk. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I don't mean to despise them, any more than I would ape them. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The penniless Colonel became quite obsequious and respectful to the head of his house, and despised the milksop Pitt no longer. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Poor Rosamond's vagrant fancy had come back terribly scourged--meek enough to nestle under the old despised shelter. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I despised them, to a man. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I clung to my ferocious habits, yet half despised them; I continued my war against civilization, and yet entertained a wish to belong to it. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• These results are genuine and not to be despised. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I saw that in his heart he despised those dedicated to any but worldly idols. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I wouldn't marry a man I hated or despised. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Miss Eliza Bennet, said Miss Bingley, despises cards. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Popular fame may be agreeable even to a man, who despises the vulgar; but it is because their multitude gives them additional weight and authority. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Celia thought privately, Dorothea quite despises Sir James Chettam; I believe she would not accept him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Jane, you are mistaken: probably not one in the school either despises or dislikes you: many, I am sure, pity you much. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• You tell me that she will certainly cheat us, and that she despises us already. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• A child of mine deserts me for the proud and prosperous, and another child of mine despises me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She is a Republican in principle, and despises everything like rank or title. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

Edited by Henry