All 6 Uses of
despise
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- You'd get to despise me."†
Chpt 4-6
- Who are you, then, who can so well afford to despise opinion?†
Chpt 22-24 *
- Out of these say twenty will endeavour to drown the bitterness of despised love in drink; twenty more will mope away their lives without a wish or attempt to make a mark in he world, because they have no ambition apart from their attachment to you; twenty more—the susceptible person myself possibly among them—will be always draggling after you, getting where they may just see you, doing desperate things.†
Chpt 25-27
- Beyond a politic wish to remain unknown, there suddenly arose in him now a sense of shame at the possibility that his attractive young wife, who already despised him, should despise him more by discovering him in so mean a condition after so long a time.†
Chpt 49-51
- Beyond a politic wish to remain unknown, there suddenly arose in him now a sense of shame at the possibility that his attractive young wife, who already despised him, should despise him more by discovering him in so mean a condition after so long a time.†
Chpt 49-51
- Poor Bathsheba began to suffer now from the most torturing sting of all—a sensation that she was despised.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(despise) to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect