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Definition

to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect

She despises the people he has to work for.

despises = dislikes strongly and looks down upon

She despises his lifestyle.

despises = dislikes strongly and looks down upon

During that time, she came to despise communism.

despise = dislike strongly and look down upon

Thinking it was the responsible thing to do, she took the job, but came to despise it.

despise = dislike strongly and look down upon

It's easy to despise luxuries that are well out of your reach.

despise = dislike strongly and look down upon

They despise each other.

despise = dislike strongly and look down upon

If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other?
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

despise = dislike strongly and look down upon

Now I looked at his face. It was despising and full of anger.
Sue Monk Kidd -- The Secret Life of Bees

despising = full of strong dislike and disdain

Kaa was not a poison snake—in fact he rather despised the poison snakes as cowards—but his strength lay in his hug, and when he had once lapped his huge coils round anybody there was no more to be said.
Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book

despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon

Eager to find fault and despise any outsider.
Toni Morrison -- Song of Solomon

despise = dislike strongly and look down upon

I came to despise the neighbors, my relatives and anybody else who had ever known me and the conditions under which I lived.
Dave Pelzer -- A Child Called It

despise = dislike strongly

I know he despises being useless, sitting still while war overtakes us.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible

despises = dislikes strongly and looks down upon

in your heart you despise sensual pleasures.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage

despise = dislike strongly and look down upon

I'm glad you don't despise the goods of this world.
E.M. Forster -- Howards End

despise = dislike strongly and look down upon

He hated her, for she seemed in some way to make him despise himself.
D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers

despise = dislike strongly and look upon with disdain

She wasn't one of them, by any means, and I think that was probably what the other women simultaneously admired and despised the most.
Jill McCorkle -- Ferris Beach

despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon

Four days later take the side you despise...
Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies

despise = dislike strongly and look down upon

The judge called Stanley's crime despicable.
Louis Sachar -- Holes

despicable = terrible (vile; disgusting) — worthy of being strongly disliked and looked down upon

(Editor's note: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.)

Long hours she sat looking in the mirror, trying to discover the secret of the ugliness, the ugliness that made her ignored or despised at school, by teachers and classmates alike.
Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye

despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon

He stayed there two weeks, dismayed at its ferocious indifference to the drums of his destiny, to destiny itself, and despising the janitor's work with which he was to pay his way through.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

despising = disliking strongly and looking down upon

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