All 16 Uses of
despise
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- I will be a sailor; instead of the costume of our fathers, which you despise, I will wear a varnished hat, a striped shirt, and a blue jacket, with an anchor on the buttons.†
Chpt 3-4
- At this moment hope makes me despise their riches, which seem to me contemptible.†
Chpt 23-24 *
- I should hate and despise myself as a coward did I desert the brave fellow in his present extremity.†
Chpt 33-34
- "Ah, father," said Albert with a smile, "it is evident you do not know the Count of Monte Cristo; he despises all honors, and contents himself with those written on his passport."†
Chpt 41-42
- Although master of himself, Monte Cristo, scrutinized with irrepressible curiosity the magistrate whose salute he returned, and who, distrustful by habit, and especially incredulous as to social prodigies, was much more despised to look upon "the noble stranger," as Monte Cristo was already called, as an adventurer in search of new fields, or an escaped criminal, rather than as a prince of the Holy See, or a sultan of the Thousand and One Nights.†
Chpt 47-48
- It is not just that he should despise me so, without any reason.†
Chpt 57-58
- Their agony formed part of their merit—if they were not seen alive, they were despised when dead.†
Chpt 63-64
- "Oh, this is too much," cried Hermine, choking, "you are worse than despicable."†
Chpt 65-66
- More than once she thought of revealing all to her grandmother, and she would not have hesitated a moment, if Maximilian Morrel had been named Albert de Morcerf or Raoul de Chateau-Renaud; but Morrel was of plebeian extraction, and Valentine knew how the haughty Marquise de Saint-Meran despised all who were not noble.†
Chpt 71-72
- Oh, you despise them.†
Chpt 81-82
- My God, my Lord, I have long despised thee!†
Chpt 83-84
- The true nobility laughed at him, the talented repelled him, and the honorable instinctively despised him.†
Chpt 85-86
- "In truth, what Albert has just done is either very despicable or very noble," replied the baron.†
Chpt 89-90
- I do not despise bankruptcies, believe me, but they must be those which enrich, not those which ruin.†
Chpt 95-96
- The men are all infamous, and I am happy to be able now to do more than detest them—I despise them.†
Chpt 97-98
- With pleasure, sir; twenty francs are not to be despised.†
Chpt 97-98
Definition:
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(despise) to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect