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Definition
to strongly dislike — and often to look down upon with disrespect
- We laughed outright at the petted things; we did despise them!Chapter 6 (54% in)
- I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.Chapter 12 (14% in)
- WHY did you despise me?Chapter 15 (70% in)
- That is the sole consideration which can make me endure the whelp: I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!Chapter 20 (77% in)
- And papa swore it was owing to me: he called me a pitiful, shuffling, worthless thing; and said you despised me; and if he had been in my place, he would be more the master of the Grange than your father by this time.Chapter 23 (24% in)
- But you don't despise me, do you, Miss — ?'Chapter 23 (25% in)
- 'Despise you?Chapter 23 (26% in)
- He was as quick and as intelligent a child as ever you were; and I'm hurt that he should be despised now, because that base Heathcliff has treated him so unjustly.'Chapter 24 (51% in)
- Despise me as much as you please; I am a worthless, cowardly wretch: I can't be scorned enough; but I'm too mean for your anger.Chapter 27 (13% in)
- I despise you, and will have nothing to say to any of you!Chapter 30 (83% in)
- When I call you stupid, I don't mean anything: I don't mean that I despise you.Chapter 32 (73% in)
- 'You're a damned liar,' began Earnshaw: 'why have I made him angry, by taking your part, then, a hundred times? and that when you sneered at and despised me, and — Go on plaguing me, and I'll step in yonder, and say you worried me out of the kitchen!'Chapter 32 (78% in)
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