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  • I know he despises being useless, sitting still while war overtakes us.   (source)
    despises = dislikes strongly and looks down upon
  • 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.   (source)
    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.   (source)
    despising = disliking strongly and looking down upon
  • 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.   (source)
    despised = strongly disliked
  • He hated her, for she seemed in some way to make him despise himself.   (source)
    despise = dislike strongly and look upon with disdain
  • in your heart you despise sensual pleasures.   (source)
    despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
  • she despised snakes   (source)
    despised = dislikes strongly
  • I could not be near any man without despising myself.†   (source)
  • People used to talk about Shabana's bad character, but our men both wished to see her dance and also despised her because she was a dancer.†   (source)
  • I'd grown to despise the other indents almost as much as the customers.†   (source)
  • And then there's Roland, who as much as he despises Connor, is now riding Connor's fame wave for all it's worth.†   (source)
  • Eating the gristly meat with our fingers, we slap at mosquitoes and talk about this peculiar person whom none of us ever met, trying to get a handle on how he came to grief, trying to understand why some people seem to despise him so intensely for having died here.†   (source)
  • At the base gate, they were flagged down by the despised lieutenant who had ordered them to fly Super Man on three engines.†   (source)
  • But he held a special fondness for crooners—Perry Como for example, or Mel Torme, whom Trudy despised.†   (source)
  • Wearing a dirty leather jacket, smelling of cigarettes, and speaking in a loud voice, he was exactly the sort of person Wang despised.†   (source)
  • Their lives parallel his, and he feels a sinking in his gut at the thought that he, too, is despised for the role he plays at the camp.†   (source)
  • They despise us," Clara said as she rocked Margarethe in her arms.†   (source)
  • Christ wants those who are most oppressed and desolate to turn to his light ...They are the very ones he took to himself: the evil-doers, the tax collectors, the prostitutes, the despised of men.†   (source)
  • Even a legacy as ugly as that of Cecil Rhodes—a nineteenth-century imperialist, white supremacist, and rapacious businessman—could be turned around and used by a person like me, someone Cecil Rhodes would've undoubtedly despised, to change the world that Rhodes and people like him had left for us.†   (source)
  • If Peter and his friends hated me before, they will despise me now.†   (source)
  • Bezu Fache despised many things...but few drew more wrath than the U.S. Embassy.†   (source)
  • Though he had plenty of reasons to despise Ben, he mostly felt sorry for him.†   (source)
  • They were Muggles who hated and despised magic in any form, which meant that Harry was about as welcome in their house as dry rot.†   (source)
  • And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are.†   (source)
  • That would sound a lot better than the truth—that their own teammates despised them so much that they helped a stranger beat them up.†   (source)
  • Above all things that she despised, what my grandmother loathed most was lack of effort; this struck Dan Needham as a peculiar hatred, because Harriet Wheelwright had never worked a day in her life—nor had she ever expected my mother to work; and she never once assigned me a single chore.†   (source)
  • They'd charge us with integration violation—I read about it in the paper all the time—they despise the whites that meet with the coloreds to help with the civil rights movement.†   (source)
  • Some of the things he's said over the past few days are starting to make sense, and I begin to feel more and more like the people I despise.†   (source)
  • A man so despised, so foul tempered, so robotically inflexible that on the last day of eighth grade we defaced his yearbook picture with staples and left it like an effigy behind his seat.†   (source)
  • The more time he spent with them, the more Jon despised them.†   (source)
  • He minded, despised the possibility that I might be the head of the school.†   (source)
  • Sharp-featured and blue-eyed, he could freeze fire with his smile—he despises this pageantry.†   (source)
  • Quite the opposite: I despise the notion.†   (source)
  • She despised dresses.†   (source)
  • She would despise him for coming.†   (source)
  • She realized that she was feeling a new love: for life, for this child, for Pedro, even for the sister she had despised for so long.†   (source)
  • Kit curtsied, noting with satisfaction that this was one woman who did not despise vain adornment.†   (source)
  • Lindsey walked across the soft rug and touched the navy skirt and red and blue crocheted vest that were two separate, heatedly despised balls.†   (source)
  • And amid all these people who despised the Lunar queen, Cinder seemed to be the only one who had resisted her.†   (source)
  • Within the first few months of her return to her parents' home, Ammu quickly learned to recognize and despise the ugly face of sympathy.†   (source)
  • He was feared and despised everywhere he went.†   (source)
  • There are two things under this world that I really despise.†   (source)
  • I turned and saw one of the many friends I had come to despise.†   (source)
  • The problem essentially is that I despise boats.†   (source)
  • "Enjoy the ride," Tommy says with a grin, the kind I've seen people wear when told something bad has happened to someone they despise.†   (source)
  • Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and—no matter how much we despised ourselves for it—unable quite to let each other go.†   (source)
  • I despised the women who staffed Comfort Hill: unsmiling, uncomforting.†   (source)
  • Capricorn thinks you're stupid and despises you for it.†   (source)
  • I despised them and kicked them to flip them.†   (source)
  • They despise it.†   (source)
  • We will either have to incorporate the Hyperion system into the Web to allow it FORCE protection, or it will fall to a race which despises and distrusts the Core and all Als.†   (source)
  • I was in disbelief that I'd just explained my dreary life to this bizarre, beautiful boy who may or may not despise me.†   (source)
  • They speak of New York, of stores and neighborhoods and buildings they either despise or love, with an intimacy and ease that make Gogol feel as if he barely knows the city.†   (source)
  • She is left with her despised, kinky "black" hair and her self-loathing.†   (source)
  • I DESPISE LOS ANGELES.†   (source)
  • Mr. Hollenback doomed me to be lab partners with Ethan-Hating Emily, also known as Emily Asher, who had despised me ever since the formal last year, when I made the mistake of wearing my Chuck Taylors with my tux and letting my dad drive us in the rusty Volvo.†   (source)
  • "Your aunt despises me," Madam said.†   (source)
  • I picked up my own hat—the despised gray one from last year—and trailed after them, one hand clinging to the center post.†   (source)
  • We despise would-be dictators who wish to dominate us—SEALS steer the rudders of their own destinies.†   (source)
  • In general, he despised his fellow beings.†   (source)
  • As I look back on this, I still despise him for it.†   (source)
  • He despised Downworlders and felt that they should be slaughtered, wholesale, to keep this world pure for human beings.†   (source)
  • Linus himself had always despised Festus, and the nephew wasted no time destroying his uncle's happy home.†   (source)
  • Divorced women are humiliated, despised, suffering worse than an animal's fate.†   (source)
  • Fisheye says, choking on a cup of the freezedned coffee he despises so much.†   (source)
  • In the end, in spite of his having grown to despise her, Misery's death had been something of a surprise to him.†   (source)
  • Nana and Ferula despised each other.†   (source)
  • I really hated and despised it when he would leave me tied up in a certain position by those eye hooks that screw into the wall.†   (source)
  • The only man to help was a Samaritan — the member of a despised minority — who "went up to him and bound up his wounds" and took him to an inn.†   (source)
  • Moreover, a clandestine life shared with a man who was never completely hers, and in which they often knew the sudden explosion of happiness, did not seem to her a condition to be despised.†   (source)
  • Since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.—HEBREWS 12.1-2†   (source)
  • One cannot truly blame them for this; one can only despise them.†   (source)
  • When you were the only boy smashed between four sisters, and the older two had despised you ever since you stopped letting them dress you up and wheel you around in their rusty old doll carriage, and the littlest one cried if you looked at her cross-eyed, it was nice to have somebody who worshiped you.†   (source)
  • I said to Patch, awed by his power even as I despised his use of it.†   (source)
  • Even his nanny—whom he despises, by the way—can't keep up with him.†   (source)
  • I despise that dress and get your hands off me is what she needs to be told.†   (source)
  • Haven't we earned the right to despise their idiot questions?†   (source)
  • Actually, we both think Bridget is annoying—she's always really cheerful and she wears T-shirts with lame slogans like Unless You're the Lead Dog the View Never Changes (no lie)—but Lindsay despises Anna and once wrote AC = WT all over the bathroom right across from the cafeteria—the one everyone uses.†   (source)
  • From what Robert: could gather, as he tidied the kitchen, the poor soul had agreed to run a profile piece on some actor Annie despised.†   (source)
  • What made me despise the girl in the mirror enough to transform her, turn her into a stranger, only not.†   (source)
  • OSHA had long been despised by the nation's manufacturers, who considered the agency a source of meddlesome regulations and unnecessary red tape.†   (source)
  • He added his stream to the ocean, holding that most despised part of himself loosely between two fingers of one hand.†   (source)
  • We are the despised rendered voiceless, stripped of car, radio, camera, and every means of communication, a trainload of eyes covered with mud and spittle:.†   (source)
  • She wears a sari and ties her black hair back, and she seems utterly relaxed as she strolls among people who despise her.†   (source)
  • Mengistu was a despised figure, a blight on the nation, a man about whom to this day no one can find a good word to say.†   (source)
  • The guide knew the chief despised his own weakness, for it showed in the hard lines of bitterness etched on his face.†   (source)
  • And I despise the smell of pickles.†   (source)
  • Just gossip and talk-everything Nancy despised.†   (source)
  • And there was something else—as much as I despised the war, deep inside I felt I was a coward.†   (source)
  • Wasn't it you who taught me to despise any man who would do that?†   (source)
  • You never know when you'll be in need of them you've despised, said Blevins.†   (source)
  • I despised you then, for what you were, and I despise you now, for what you're doing.†   (source)
  • I do despise to put anything on 'em that anybody else has wore ...hit don't seem right.†   (source)
  • Music burst from the jukebox, a song Miro didn't recognize but it was loud and upbeat, disco, the kind of music Artkin despised.†   (source)
  • It would have been so simple if you could have just despised him for being a weak man.†   (source)
  • Now he and his vaunted regulars had been outsmarted by "the rabble in arms," whom they had so long disparaged and despised.†   (source)
  • Sabina despised literature in which people give away all kinds of intimate secrets about themselves and their friends.†   (source)
  • With regard to the whereabouts of Kilgore Trout: he actually lived in Ilium, Billy's hometown, friendless and despised.†   (source)
  • How I despised the man for making me lie.†   (source)
  • We despise it!†   (source)
  • 5 CHIEF WHITE HALFOAT Doc Daneeka lived in a splotched gray tent with Chief White Halfoat, whom he feared and despised.†   (source)
  • We had brown wall-to-wall carpeting, three ill-tempered, ill-mannered Siamese cats, which I secretly despised, and a huge Saint Bernard dog named King, who I loved.†   (source)
  • Each time I start to like Pippa, she does something like this to make me despise her again.†   (source)
  • Max felt a reflexive surge of anger as he watched them go; he despised the Workshop and its smug representatives.†   (source)
  • His ex-wife loathed him almost as much as she despised Seth, and she had gleefully spread the awful but true gossip around Memphis.†   (source)
  • And on a much more personal level, he must negotiate the animus between Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson, who despise each other.†   (source)
  • But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.†   (source)
  • I had never spoken anything but English, and the other kids in the second grade despised me for it.†   (source)
  • I hated live music, and I despised the Nest, but pretending the opposite would make Toby happy, and Casey would be thrilled to be invited along.†   (source)
  • These small animals are more to be despised than relied upon, I reckon.†   (source)
  • There wasn't a cop on the force who didn't despise Testing.†   (source)
  • She despised rules and formalities.†   (source)
  • Students of Peshawar's madrassas, or Islamic theological schools, were trading in their books for Kalashnikovs and bandoliers and marching over the pass to join a movement that threatened to sweep Afghanistan's widely despised rulers from power.†   (source)
  • Kennedy's accent soon became part of his television charm, but LBJ's Texas speech was openly despised, especially by Kennedy people.†   (source)
  • The only worthwhile members of this court despise me.†   (source)
  • You can see why I despised Grandpa Tweedy and didn't have a dab of respect for him.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus despised this park without knowing exactly why...because he hadn't discovered it himself, perhaps, but probably not.†   (source)
  • I could see it all and I knew that even the officials and the older men would despise me as though, somehow, in losing my place in Bledsoe's world I had betrayed them ....I saw it as they looked at my overalls.†   (source)
  • They were despised in the South, so much so that a South Carolina plantation owner had put up a $100,000 bounty, for the delivery of the bodies of Lewis and Arthur Tappan to any slave state.†   (source)
  • Fifth Avenue despises the slums, and the slums hate Fifth Avenue.†   (source)
  • For the first time in my career, I despise what I am doing.†   (source)
  • With her teeth clenched tight, Lee knew she despised him.†   (source)
  • All Loonies despised Warden and cheated Authority.†   (source)
  • Other commandments laid out additional reasons that Tutsis should be feared, despised, and shunned.†   (source)
  • Because he despised their familiarity, they marched him double time down a moonlit road that threaded between bare rock cliffs, and allowed him none of the customary rests on the uphill portions.†   (source)
  • He did not want to look at them; he despised memories as a pointless indulgence.†   (source)
  • When I asked him not to despise you his reply was: I cannot judge him, and if I cannot judge him, I cannot despise him.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he sang folk songs, though he was not a radical and despised music created for a cause.†   (source)
  • They despised the people of Ten-Towns, whom they considered weak wealth-chasers possessed of no spiritual value whatsoever.†   (source)
  • The Quran teaches us that God created us from a single pair, and made us into nations and tribes so that we may know each other, not so that we may despise each other.†   (source)
  • I despise sanding.†   (source)
  • Despising as they did all efforts in behalf of †   (source)
  • Our old cat, Boo, despised it, she was always nervous, riding the walls.†   (source)
  • The people had been taught to despise themselves because they were left with barren land and dry rivers.†   (source)
  • Wilson, for instance, who despised "college professors" and their tastes, tackled the problem of the "boring" modern story at great and lucid length, ending with the intriguing conclusion that each age has its own acceptable boredoms, with Joyce's boredoms being no greater than Sir Walter Scott's.†   (source)
  • I am one of those, only a halfDwarf, and if any of my kindred, the true Dwarfs, are still alive anywhere in the world, doubtless they would despise me and call me a traitor.†   (source)
  • I mean you don't just despise what they represent—you despise them.†   (source)
  • Longstreet despises him.†   (source)
  • "I am no abolitionist," wrote an enlisted man in the 55th Ohio, "in fact despise the word," but "as long as slavery exists ...there will be no permanent peace for America....Hence I am in favor of killing slavery."†   (source)
  • Oh, I despise an automatic lock!†   (source)
  • Have I not given you enough reason already to despise me?†   (source)
  • At his last high school reunion, a man, a former football player whom Alan had despised, said, Alan Clay, you've got a thousand-mile stare.†   (source)
  • When I had said the words, I thought, Perhaps he will despise me for my weakness; perhaps this will make him think I am a self-pitying good-for-nothing, anxious only for my own well-being, and I added quickly: "There are others to consider besides myself...I do what I can but it is not much."†   (source)
  • On my deathbed, I will be grandly dispensing good to my last breath, and my friends and loved ones will be despising that part of me to the very end.†   (source)
  • At first Harriet worked in his house, doing the housework that she despised.†   (source)
  • He seemed pleased to despise them all, and they hated him because, like the world outside, he did not need them.†   (source)
  • He thought the Hamiltons despised him for his one ability.†   (source)
  • It does not despise him.†   (source)
  • Only that you despise Jews.†   (source)
  • You'll be safe," Random corrected, and I wondered what he had done to be despised in the place called Rebma.†   (source)
  • He also looked forward to seeing Nika Dudorov again, though Nika, being two years older, probably despised him.†   (source)
  • And looking at himself now, he neither despised himself nor felt pity for himself, nor blamed others for whatever they might feel about him.†   (source)
  • The fact that I despise religion doesn't mean I don't esteem it highly.†   (source)
  • You could see that he despised and saw the uselessness of the thing he had done.†   (source)
  • That flamboyant ego, for which he was both loved and despised, never deserted him.†   (source)
  • He had spent plenty of money to make them so; but he despised them for it.†   (source)
  • They despise each other.
    despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
  • I'm glad you don't despise the goods of this world.   (source)
  • People would call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum—but that don't make no difference.   (source)
  • The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest.   (source)
  • It was the jackal—Tabaqui, the Dish-licker—and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps.   (source)
  • Despised love struck not with woe
    That head of curly knots,
    Nor stomach troubles laid him low,
    Young Stephen Dowling Bots.   (source)
    despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
  • I am the lineal descendant of that infant—I am the rightful Duke of Bridgewater; and here am I, forlorn, torn from my high estate, hunted of men, despised by the cold world, ragged, worn, heart-broken, and degraded to the companionship of felons on a raft!   (source)
  • Having few good memories of my mother, I despised Ashley more for stealing the one I had.†   (source)
  • I despise you and everything you stand for.†   (source)
    despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
  • They were poor, they were diseased and dirty, some were lazy and shiftless, but never in my life was I given the idea that I should despise one, should fear one, should be discourteous to one, or think that I could mistreat one and get away with it.†   (source)
  • For a moment, even though we knew what was being done to her, we despised her.†   (source)
  • And I can either despise it, attack it, eradicate it ....or I can use it.†   (source)
  • Even though Murtagh despised his father and was loyal to Eragon, the Varden had not trusted him.†   (source)
  • But still, that doesn't mean she doesn't despise me.†   (source)
  • When it came down to it, Chuck was the most vivid reason that he despised WICKED.†   (source)
  • She came to despise anything and anyone who was not him in the house of her misfortune.†   (source)
  • Spoken by a member of a despised and persecuted race.†   (source)
  • Does she look at me and despise her loss?†   (source)
  • I despised myself for the cheesy sentiment, but what else did I have?†   (source)
  • To be hated and despised by every culture in the galaxy?†   (source)
  • I despise those words, but they're all I can give.†   (source)
  • They all are, which is why I so despise the thought — however, I won't go on and on.†   (source)
  • I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able to play in its warm presence.†   (source)
  • We're colleagues, he doesn't need money, and I happen to know he despises the French authorities.†   (source)
  • It was not for the touch football, which Dan and my mother and I despised.†   (source)
  • Even if it were possible, Dark Casters despise Mortals.†   (source)
  • Old Bert down to town, he despises that grocery store.†   (source)
  • Turns out she doesn't despise technology nearly as much as she had to let on over the years.†   (source)
  • It would not be the first time that Ned had been forced to make common cause with a man he despised.†   (source)
  • The terribles hate the tithes the way peasants despise royalty.†   (source)
  • Just answer the questions and try not to let the audience see how openly you despise them.†   (source)
  • I didn't know how to cut or saute or anything, and I despised failing or looking foolish.†   (source)
  • You cannot despise me more than I despise myself.†   (source)
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