All 10 Uses of
despise
in
The Bluest Eye
- I believe she despises my weakness for letting the sickness "take holt."†
Chpt 2despises = dislikes strongly and looks down upon
- For some reason Cholly had not hated the white men; he hated, despised, the girl.†
Chpt 2despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- Long hours she sat looking in the mirror, trying to discover the secret of the ugliness, the ugliness that made her ignored or despised at school, by teachers and classmates alike.
Chpt 2 *
- They, in turn, did not despise her.†
Chpt 2despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- She came into her own with the women who had despised her, by being more moral than they; she avenged herself on Cholly by forcing him to indulge in the weaknesses she despised.†
Chpt 4despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- She came into her own with the women who had despised her, by being more moral than they; she avenged herself on Cholly by forcing him to indulge in the weaknesses she despised.†
Chpt 4
- The works he admired most were Dante's; those he despised most were Dostoyevsky's.†
Chpt 4
- You can only love or despise whatever living was done in that room.†
Chpt 4despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- Consider: How I hated and despised the money.†
Chpt 4despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- Holding the despising glance while sabotaging it was difficult.†
Chpt 6despising = disliking strongly and looking down upon
Definition:
to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect