All 5 Uses of
despise
in
David Copperfield
- I see him now, going away in custody, despised by the congregation.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- And yet I did not despise him the more for it, but thought it a redeeming quality in him if he could be allowed any grace for not resisting one so irresistible as Steerforth.†
Chpt 19-21
- As she still stood looking fixedly at me, a twitching or throbbing, from which I could not dissociate the idea of pain, came into that cruel mark; and lifted up the corner of her lip as if with scorn, or with a pity that despised its object.†
Chpt 28-30
- I despised them, to a man.†
Chpt 31-33
- 'I have shown you often enough,' said I, 'that I despise you.†
Chpt 40-42
Definition:
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(despise) to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect