All 3 Uses
despise
in
The Jungle Book
(Edited)
- It was the jackal—Tabaqui, the Dish-licker—and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps.
p. 8.3despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- Kaa was not a poison snake—in fact he rather despised the poison snakes as cowards—but his strength lay in his hug, and when he had once lapped his huge coils round anybody there was no more to be said.
p. 57.2 *despised = strongly disliked
- The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest.
p. 64.6despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
Definitions:
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(1)
(despise) to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)