All 4 Uses of
despise
in
All Quiet on the Western Front
- 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.†
p. 38.9despises = dislikes strongly and looks down upon
- A few years ago we would have despised ourselves terribly.†
p. 138.4 *despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- —They are different men here, men I cannot properly understand, whom I envy and despise.†
p. 169.7despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- A week after we heard that he had been caught by the field gendarmes, those despicable military police.†
p. 277.4despicable = 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