All 15 Uses of
despise
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- How despicably I fawned upon that wretched Ilya Petrovitch!†
Chpt 2.2 *despicably = in a manner that is terrible (vile; disgusting) -- worthy of being strongly disliked and looked down uponstandard 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.
- You are not Amalia Ivanovna, but Amalia Ludwigovna, and as I am not one of your despicable flatterers like Mr. Lebeziatnikov, who's laughing behind the door at this moment (a laugh and a cry of 'they are at it again' was in fact audible at the door) so I shall always call you Amalia Ludwigovna, though I fail to understand why you dislike that name.†
Chpt 2.7despicable = 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.
- how despicable it all was!†
Chpt 3.2
- I shall get up and throw the whole truth in your ugly faces, and you'll see how I despise you.†
Chpt 3.5despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- Meanwhile the really new people are very often unobserved by them, or even despised as reactionaries of grovelling tendencies.†
Chpt 3.5despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- Pyotr Petrovitch had despised and hated him from the day he came to stay with him and at the same time he seemed somewhat afraid of him.†
Chpt 5.1
- These powerful omniscient circles who despised everyone and showed everyone up had long inspired in him a peculiar but quite vague alarm.†
Chpt 5.1
- However simple Andrey Semyonovitch might be, he began to see that Pyotr Petrovitch was duping him and secretly despising him, and that "he was not the right sort of man."†
Chpt 5.1despising = disliking strongly and looking down upon
- You simply despise her.†
Chpt 5.1despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- I understand now where the unpleasantness is of being deceived in a legal marriage, but it's simply a despicable consequence of a despicable position in which both are humiliated.†
Chpt 5.1despicable = 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 understand now where the unpleasantness is of being deceived in a legal marriage, but it's simply a despicable consequence of a despicable position in which both are humiliated.†
Chpt 5.1
- Oh, pitiful, despicable man!†
Chpt 5.3
- He who despises most things will be a lawgiver among them and he who dares most of all will be most in the right!†
Chpt 5.4despises = dislikes strongly and looks down upon
- It wasn't enough for him to suffer agony behind the door while they battered at the door and rung the bell, no, he had to go to the empty lodging, half delirious, to recall the bell-ringing, he wanted to feel the cold shiver over again.... Well, that we grant, was through illness, but consider this: he is a murderer, but looks upon himself as an honest man, despises others, poses as injured innocence.†
Chpt 6.2
- Ah, the despicable creatures, how could they understand genius!†
Chpt 6.7despicable = 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.
Definition:
to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect