All 5 Uses of
despise
in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- People would call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum—but that don't make no difference.
Chpt 8despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- Despised love struck not with woe
That head of curly knots,
Nor stomach troubles laid him low,
Young Stephen Dowling Bots.
Chpt 17despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- I am the lineal descendant of that infant—I am the rightful Duke of Bridgewater; and here am I, forlorn, torn from my high estate, hunted of men, despised by the cold world, ragged, worn, heart-broken, and degraded to the companionship of felons on a raft!
Chpt 19
- But I soon give up that notion for two things: she'd be mad and disgusted at his rascality and ungratefulness for leaving her, and so she'd sell him straight down the river again; and if she didn't, everybody naturally despises an ungrateful nigger, and they'd make Jim feel it all the time, and so he'd feel ornery and disgraced.
Chpt 31despises = dislikes strongly and looks down upon
- she despised snakes
Chpt 39 *despised = dislikes strongly
Definition:
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(despise) to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect