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Definition
to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect
- A few years ago we would have despised ourselves terribly.Chapter 7 (2% in)
- He despises it when not flavoured with bog-myrtle, and, "for God's sake, let it all be cooked together, not the potatoes, the beans, and the bacon separately.Chapter 3 (22% in)
- —They are different men here, men I cannot properly understand, whom I envy and despise.Chapter 7 (68% in)
- A week after we heard that he had been caught by the field gendarmes, those despicable military police.Chapter 11 (30% in)
There are no more uses of "despise" in All Quiet on the Western Front.
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