Despises

Examples

• 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.
• If he despises you, or perceives you are in jest, whatever you say has no effect upon him. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Sometimes, she added, I think it's just flightiness--and sometimes I think it's because, at heart, she despises the things she's trying for. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He despises me, I thought; but he shall learn that I despise him, and hold in equal contempt his punishments and his clemency. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• One despises such low scoundrels, observed Malone, in a profound vein of reflection. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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