All 7 Uses of
despise
in
1984 by Orwell
- It was a lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard — a clever face, and yet somehow inherently despicable, with a kind of senile silliness in the long thin nose, near the end of which a pair of spectacles was perched.†
p. 12..5
- But what was strange was that although Goldstein was hated and despised by everybody, although every day and a thousand times a day, on platforms, on the telescreen, in newspapers, in books, his theories were refuted, smashed, ridiculed, held up to the general gaze for the pitiful rubbish that they were in spite of all this, his influence never seemed to grow less.†
p. 13..6
- He thought it with a kind of sadness, although well knowing that Syme despised him and slightly disliked him, and was fully capable of denouncing him as a thought-criminal if he saw any reason for doing so.†
p. 54..9
- Mere debauchery did not matter very much, so long as it was furtive and joyless and only involved the women of a submerged and despised class.†
p. 65..4 *
- For the first time in his life he did not despise the proles or think of them merely as an inert force which would one day spring to life and regenerate the world.†
p. 165..4
- His grey eyes still flitted from face to face, more guiltily than ever, as though he were trying to discover how much the others despised him for his humiliation.†
p. 236..4
- They wore them down by torture and solitude until they were despicable, cringing wretches, confessing whatever was put into their mouths, covering themselves with abuse, accusing and sheltering behind one another, whimpering for mercy.†
p. 254..3
Definition:
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(despise) to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect