All 17 Uses of

despise
in
Notes from the Underground

I was ashamed (even now, perhaps, I am ashamed): I got to the point of feeling a sort of secret abnormal, despicable enjoyment in returning home to my corner on some disgusting Petersburg night, acutely conscious that that day I had committed a loathsome action again, that what was done could never be undone, and secretly, inwardly gnawing, gnawing at myself for it, tearing and consuming myself till at last the bitterness turned into a sort of shameful accursed sweetness, and at last—into positive real enjoyment!†
Chpt 1.2

It is nasty for you to hear my despicable moans: well, let it be nasty; here I will let you have a nastier flourish in a minute....†
Chpt 1.4

The day after tomorrow, at the latest, you will begin despising yourself for having knowingly deceived yourself.†
Chpt 1.5 *

despising = disliking strongly and looking down upon

But the reason why he wants sometimes to go off at a tangent may just be that he is PREDESTINED to make the road, and perhaps, too, that however stupid the "direct" practical man may be, the thought sometimes will occur to him that the road almost always does lead SOMEWHERE, and that the destination it leads to is less important than the process of making it, and that the chief thing is to save the well-conducted child from despising engineering, and so giving way to the fatal idleness, which, as we all know, is the mother of all the vices.†
Chpt 1.9

Of course, I hated my fellow clerks one and all, and I despised them all, yet at the same time I was, as it were, afraid of them.†
Chpt 2.1

despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon

It somehow happened quite suddenly that I alternated between despising them and thinking them superior to myself.†
Chpt 2.1

despising = disliking strongly and looking down upon

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.†
Chpt 2.1

But whether I despised them or thought them superior I dropped my eyes almost every time I met anyone.†
Chpt 2.1

despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon

to refuse to accept anyone or anything, but at the same time not to despise anything;†
Chpt 2.1

despise = dislike strongly and look down upon

I, for instance, genuinely despised my official work and did not openly abuse it simply because I was in it myself and got a salary for it.†
Chpt 2.1

despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon

I knew, of course, that they must despise me now for my lack of success in the service, and for my having let myself sink so low, going about badly dressed and so on—which seemed to them a sign of my incapacity and insignificance.†
Chpt 2.3

despise = dislike strongly and look down upon

With despair I pictured to myself how coldly and disdainfully that "scoundrel" Zverkov would meet me; with what dull-witted, invincible contempt the blockhead Trudolyubov would look at me; with what impudent rudeness the insect Ferfitchkin would snigger at me in order to curry favour with Zverkov; how completely Simonov would take it all in, and how he would despise me for the abjectness of my vanity and lack of spirit—and, worst of all, how paltry, UNLITERARY, commonplace it would all be.†
Chpt 2.3

But for some unknown reason he despised me beyond all measure, and looked down upon me insufferably.†
Chpt 2.8

despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon

Liza, do you despise me?†
Chpt 2.9

despise = dislike strongly and look down upon

We shall not know what to join on to, what to cling to, what to love and what to hate, what to respect and what to despise.†
Chpt 2.10

despise = dislike strongly and look down upon

Definition:

to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect