All 12 Uses of
despise
in
Great Expectations
- She threw the cards down on the table when she had won them all, as if she despised them for having been won of me.†
p. 63.5 *despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- So, leaving word with the shopman on what day I was wanted at Miss Havisham's again, I set off on the four-mile walk to our forge; pondering, as I went along, on all I had seen, and deeply revolving that I was a common laboring-boy; that my hands were coarse; that my boots were thick; that I had fallen into a despicable habit of calling knaves Jacks; that I was much more ignorant than I had considered myself last night, and generally that I was in a low-lived bad way.†
p. 67.6despicable = terrible (vile; disgusting) -- worthy of being strongly disliked and looked down uponstandard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
- I was haunted by the fear that she would, sooner or later, find me out, with a black face and hands, doing the coarsest part of my work, and would exult over me and despise me.†
p. 113.9despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- I began to consider whether I was not more naturally and wholesomely situated, after all, in these circumstances, than playing beggar my neighbor by candle-light in the room with the stopped clocks, and being despised by Estella.†
p. 138.3despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- Here is a chicken had round from the Boar, here is a tongue had round from the Boar, here's one or two little things had round from the Boar, that I hope you may not despise.†
p. 162.4despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- Drummle laughed outright, and sat laughing in our faces, with his hands in his pockets and his round shoulders raised; plainly signifying that it was quite true, and that he despised us as asses all.†
p. 227.2despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.†
p. 230.2despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- —As I really think I should have liked to do myself, if I had been in their place and so despised.†
p. 241.2despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- He held on, in a dull persistent way, and Estella held him on; now with encouragement, now with discouragement, now almost flattering him, now openly despising him, now knowing him very well, now scarcely remembering who he was.†
p. 330.3despising = disliking strongly and looking down upon
- It makes me wretched that you should encourage a man so generally despised as Drummle.†
p. 331.3despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- You know he is despised.†
p. 331.4
- And so quick were my thoughts, that I saw myself despised by unborn generations,—Estella's children, and their children,—while the wretch's words were yet on his lips.†
p. 453.6
Definition:
to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect