All 8 Uses of
despise
in
Arrowsmith
- With unexpected defiance from Leora: "When anybody says that, it means they're not shy, and they despise women.†
Chpt 7
- Despise them?†
Chpt 7 *
- They're loyal to their friends, but they despise the rest.†
Chpt 24
- Why not, when the mass of people despise them if they AREN'T bandits?†
Chpt 24
- McGurk had bullied Dr. Tubbs now and then; Tubbs was compelled to scurry to his office as though he were a messenger boy; yet when he saw the saturnine eyes of Gottlieb, McGurk looked interested; and the two men, the bulky, clothes-conscious, powerful, reticent American and the cynical, simple, power-despising European, became friends.†
Chpt 27
- Robbed of his dependence on the despised Sondelius, sunk again in a mad planlessness, Inchcape Jones shrieked when he thought he was speaking low, and the cigarette which was ever in his thin hand shook so that the smoke quivered up in trembling spirals.†
Chpt 34
- And you despise us, rather, and perhaps you're partly right.†
Chpt 37
- Terry was rough, he was surly, he was colloquial, he despised many fine and gracious things, he offended many fine and gracious people, but these acerbities made up the haircloth robe wherewith he defended a devotion to such holy work as no cowled monk ever knew.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
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(despise) to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect