dynamic
toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

despise
in a sentence

Show 3 more sentences
  • •
    Thinking it was the responsible thing to do, she took the job, but came to despise it.
  • •
    It's easy to despise luxuries that are well out of your reach.
  • •
    They are brave men, and they despise cowards.  (source)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 10 word variations
  • •
    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.  (source)
    despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
  • •
    Kiss butts if you've got to, but if the other guys despise you — you know what I mean?  (source)
    despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
  • •
    The judge called Stanley's crime despicable.  (source)
    despicable = terrible (vile; disgusting) -- worthy of being strongly disliked and looked down upon
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
  • •
    I know he despises being useless, sitting still while war overtakes us.  (source)
    despises = dislikes strongly and looks down upon
  • •
    Now I looked at his face. It was despising and full of anger.  (source)
    despising = full of strong dislike and disdain
  • •
    He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.†  (source)
    despiseth = dislikes strongly and looks down upon
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She despiseth" in older English, today we say "She despises."
  • •
    The chaplain shook his head, feeling despicably remiss because he did not know how to delegate responsibility and had no initiative, and because he really had been tempted to disagree with the colonel.†  (source)
    despicably = in a manner that is terrible (vile; disgusting) -- worthy of being strongly disliked and looked down upon
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ably" is a combination of the suffixes "-able" and "-ly". It means in a manner that is capable of being. This is the same pattern you see in words like agreeably, favorably, and comfortably.
  • •
    He did not look at Mariam despisingly.†  (source)
  • •
    'Whence hadst thou that song, despiser of this world?'†  (source)
    despiser = someone who dislikes strongly and looks down upon
  • •
    3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3:3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)