All 50 Uses of
despise
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- "I thought ...I thought," he said, in a soft and, as it were, controlled voice, "that I was coming to my native place with the angel of my heart, my betrothed, to cherish his old age, and I find nothing but a depraved profligate, a despicable clown!"†
Chpt 2despicable = 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.
- Dmitri—despises her," said Alyosha, with a sort of shudder.†
Chpt 2despises = dislikes strongly and looks down upon
- No, brother, he doesn't despise her.†
Chpt 2despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- Since he has openly abandoned his betrothed for her, he doesn't despise her.†
Chpt 2
- Contempt's no help here, brother, even if he did despise Grushenka.†
Chpt 2
- He felt that he ought to have disdained that despicable wretch, Fyodor Pavlovitch, too much to have been upset by him in Father Zossima's cell, and so to have forgotten himself.†
Chpt 2despicable = 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.
- On the contrary, he was conceited and seemed to despise everybody.†
Chpt 3despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- Worse still with Alyosha, he despises Alyosha.†
Chpt 3despises = dislikes strongly and looks down upon
- You despise me.†
Chpt 3despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- You have come to me and despised me in my own house.†
Chpt 3 *despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- Alyosha doesn't despise me.†
Chpt 3despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- Don't be afraid of bare-footed wenches—don't despise them—they're pearls!†
Chpt 3
- Alyosha, don't despise me, and if I've done something very horrid and wounded you, forgive me.†
Chpt 3
- Don't despise me for that, sir, in Russia men who drink are the best.†
Chpt 4
- I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidian mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, of all the blood they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened with men—but though all that may come to pass, I don't accept it.†
Chpt 5despicable = 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 learned afterwards for a fact that it was from a jealous feeling on his side also that my challenge was accepted; he had been rather jealous of me on his wife's account before their marriage; he fancied now that if he submitted to be insulted by me and refused to accept my challenge, and if she heard of it, she might begin to despise him and waver in her love for him.†
Chpt 6despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- Wait a bit, don't despise me too much.†
Chpt 6
- Already the merchant grows more and more eager for rank, and strives to show himself cultured though he has not a trace of culture, and to this end meanly despises his old traditions, and is even ashamed of the faith of his fathers.†
Chpt 6despises = dislikes strongly and looks down upon
- But that is just his torment, to rise up to the Lord without ever having loved, to be brought close to those who have loved when he has despised their love.†
Chpt 6despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- For he sees clearly and says to himself, "Now I have understanding, and though I now thirst to love, there will be nothing great, no sacrifice in my love, for my earthly life is over, and Abraham will not come even with a drop of living water (that is the gift of earthly active life) to cool the fiery thirst of spiritual love which burns in me now, though I despised it on earth; there is no more life for me and will be no more time!†
Chpt 6
- I've kept thinking 'how any one like that must despise a nasty thing like me.'†
Chpt 7despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- 'He despises me,' I thought; 'he won't even look at me.'†
Chpt 7despises = dislikes strongly and looks down upon
- So you despise me now for those twenty-five roubles?†
Chpt 7despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- At the sight of Grushenka, Mitya's jealousy vanished, and, for an instant he became trustful and generous, and positively despised himself for his evil feelings.†
Chpt 8despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- I don't know how to thank you, indeed ...for such kindness, but ...If only you knew how precious time is to me.... That sum of money, for which I shall be indebted to your generosity.... Oh, madam, since you are so kind, so touchingly generous to me," Mitya exclaimed impulsively, "then let me reveal to you ...though, of course, you've known it a long time ...that I love somebody here....I have been false to Katya ...Katerina Ivanovna I should say....Oh, I've behaved inhumanly, dishonorably to her, but I fell in love here with another woman ...a woman whom you, madam, perhaps, despise, for you know everything already, but whom I cannot leave on any account, and therefore that three thousand n†
Chpt 8despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- All were clothed, while he was naked, and strange to say, when he was undressed he felt somehow guilty in their presence, and was almost ready to believe himself that he was inferior to them, and that now they had a perfect right to despise him.†
Chpt 9
- It must be noted that Kolya understood and divined what was in Dardanelov's heart and, of course, despised him profoundly for his "feelings"; he had in the past been so tactless as to show this contempt before his mother, hinting vaguely that he knew what Dardanelov was after.†
Chpt 10despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- And the vain boy began by degrees to have a rankling fear that Alyosha was silent because he despised him, and thought he was showing off before him.†
Chpt 10
- "And you say that to me!" cried Kolya; "and would you believe it, I thought—I've thought several times since I've been here—that you despised me!†
Chpt 10
- But I am convinced now that you don't despise me; it was all my imagination.†
Chpt 10despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- You do despise me, though!†
Chpt 11
- Did he despise me?†
Chpt 11
- Did he despise me?†
Chpt 11
- Tell me, tell me, Alyosha, did he despise me or not?†
Chpt 11
- And did he despise me?†
Chpt 11
- "He doesn't despise any one," Alyosha went on.†
Chpt 11
- If he doesn't believe in people, of course, he does despise them.†
Chpt 11
- Then he despises me, me?†
Chpt 11despises = dislikes strongly and looks down upon
- When he went out laughing, I felt that it was nice to be despised.†
Chpt 11despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- The child with fingers cut off is nice, and to be despised is nice....†
Chpt 11
- I despise your opinion, I despise your horror!'†
Chpt 11despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- I despise your opinion, I despise your horror!'†
Chpt 11
- Katya despises me.†
Chpt 11despises = dislikes strongly and looks down upon
- Even Lise will begin to despise me!†
Chpt 11despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- And you despise me too, Alyosha.†
Chpt 11
- Despise me as a scoundrel, despise me, all of you!†
Chpt 12
- Despise me as a scoundrel, despise me, all of you!†
Chpt 12
- I was lying against my honor and my conscience, but I wanted to save him, for he has hated and despised me so!†
Chpt 12despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- Oh, he has despised me horribly, he has always despised me, and do you know, he has despised me from the very moment that I bowed down to him for that money.†
Chpt 12
- Oh, he has despised me horribly, he has always despised me, and do you know, he has despised me from the very moment that I bowed down to him for that money.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect