All 8 Uses of
despise
in
The House of Mirth
- She had died during one of their brief visits to New York, and there Lily at once became the centre of a family council composed of the wealthy relatives whom she had been taught to despise for living like pigs.†
Chpt 1.3
- "Don't you think," she rejoined after a moment, "that the people who find fault with society are too apt to regard it as an end and not a means, just as the people who despise money speak as if its only use were to be kept in bags and gloated over?†
Chpt 1.6
- You despise my ambitions—you think them unworthy of me!†
Chpt 1.6 *
- "Sometimes," she added, "I think it's just flightiness—and sometimes I think it's because, at heart, she despises the things she's trying for.†
Chpt 2.1
- Suddenly it struck him that his silence must seem almost as accusatory as that of the men he had despised for turning from her; but before he could find the fitting word she had cut him short with a question.†
Chpt 2.3
- Much as she disliked Rosedale, she no longer absolutely despised him.†
Chpt 2.5
- For he was gradually attaining his object in life, and that, to Lily, was always less despicable than to miss it.†
Chpt 2.5
- Lily, for all her dissatisfied dreaming, had never really conceived the possibility of revolving about a different centre: it was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.†
Chpt 2.8
Definition:
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(despise) to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect