All 5 Uses of
despise
in
Main Street
- Apparently he despises the farmers because they haven't reached the social heights of selling thread and buttons."†
Chpt 5
- He was so much the man, the worker, the friend, that she liked him when she most tried to stand out against him; he was so much the successful executive that she did not want him to despise her.†
Chpt 23
- She noted that his nails were jagged and ill-shaped from his habit of cutting them with a pocket-knife and despising a nail-file as effeminate and urban.†
Chpt 24 *
- Would she some day so despise herself and her neighbors that she too would walk Main Street an old skinny eccentric woman in a mangy cat's-fur?†
Chpt 27
- "Of course if there really is anything I can do to HELP the boy—— "Though I despise these people who interfere.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(despise) to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect