All 5 Uses
despise
in
The Bet, by Chekhov
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- With a clear conscience I tell you, as before God, who beholds me, that I despise freedom and life and health, and all that in your books is called the good things of the world.†
despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world.†
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- And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world.†
- To prove to you in action how I despise all that you live by, I renounce the two millions of which I once dreamed as of paradise and which now I despise.†
- To prove to you in action how I despise all that you live by, I renounce the two millions of which I once dreamed as of paradise and which now I despise.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(despise) to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)