All 12 Uses of
despise
in
Wuthering Heights
- We laughed outright at the petted things; we did despise them!†
Chpt 6 *
- I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.†
Chpt 12
- WHY did you despise me?†
Chpt 15
- That is the sole consideration which can make me endure the whelp: I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!†
Chpt 20
- And papa swore it was owing to me: he called me a pitiful, shuffling, worthless thing; and said you despised me; and if he had been in my place, he would be more the master of the Grange than your father by this time.†
Chpt 23
- But you don't despise me, do you, Miss — ?'†
Chpt 23
- 'Despise you?†
Chpt 23
- He was as quick and as intelligent a child as ever you were; and I'm hurt that he should be despised now, because that base Heathcliff has treated him so unjustly.'†
Chpt 24
- Despise me as much as you please; I am a worthless, cowardly wretch: I can't be scorned enough; but I'm too mean for your anger.†
Chpt 27
- I despise you, and will have nothing to say to any of you!†
Chpt 30
- When I call you stupid, I don't mean anything: I don't mean that I despise you.†
Chpt 32
- 'You're a damned liar,' began Earnshaw: 'why have I made him angry, by taking your part, then, a hundred times? and that when you sneered at and despised me, and — Go on plaguing me, and I'll step in yonder, and say you worried me out of the kitchen!'†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(despise) to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect