How To Use Despise In A Sentence

While some things bug Yagoda he despises "enthuse," for example, he has a healthy skepticism toward language extremists. Oh, the irony, part 2
They acted out of a conscience that patriots despised but at least could understand.
Truly, they are now loathed and despised in newspapers across the world.
This refers to a miser, perhaps the most despised of all types in a world where generosity is the yardstick by which humanity is measured.
As for him, he believed the Quakers to be those agents of the devil foretold in the New Testament, who ‘despise dominion and speak evil of dignities.’

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He despised Hitler and Nazism as an emanation of ‘mass man’ and he believed the defeat of the Nazis would also bring an end to the power of the masses too.
That despisement she felt all the way through to her spine. All The Available Light
Like the rancher, the irrigator was a conservative and despised any intervention from government. Centennial
She was a beautiful ship, in what we call "high kelter;" she seemed a living body, conscious of her own superior power over her opponents, whose shot she despised, as they fell thick and fast about her, while she deliberately took up an admirable position for battle. Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer
She ended up living and working with Hong Kong's most despised and poorest inhabitants in a slum known as the Walled City.
But amassing information for its own sake seemed contemptible to Sontag, or pitiable, and like so many young people who hope to lead the life of the mind, she despised what she considered to be the airlessness and rigidity of academic life. Becoming Susan Sontag
Her own brother Theo despised cats, the Major complained when Sidhi dug in his flower beds, Duncan treated him with polite indifference, Felicity pronounced him unsanitary, and Meg lived in a bed-sit in Kilburn with a landlady she described as ferocious—no good prospects there. All Shall Be Well
Some people pretend to despise the things they cannot have.
Most of the kids are rich, snobby preps, which we despise, and hate everyone who isn't like them.
Because of this, the impetus to engage in violent fantasy, even of those whom we most righteously despise, is not something to be encouraged. Movie Reviews: Whiteout the Inglourious Lying | Heretical Ideas Magazine
Perhaps the phrase "I'm just a soul whose intentions are good" are more than the words of an often despised and misunderstood singer. Michael Gilmour: Yusuf Islam, Salman Rushdie And Censorship
He is despised by the overwhelming majority of the population, and most of them will secretly cheer if he gets a drubbing at the hands of the protestors.
A laddish culture, that despises academic achievement and is tolerated by far too many parents, must be changed.
And for the assertion laid down, I desire that those who despise and reproach it would attempt an answer unto the ensuing arguments whereby it is confirmed, with those others which shall be insisted on in our description of the nature of the work of regeneration itself, and that upon such grounds and principles as are not destructive of Christian religion nor introductive of atheism, before they are too confident of their success. Pneumatologia
Most of the other members of the royal family, whom he largely despised, could be coerced into endorsing the official line. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
) And she was to despise the stereotyped views of the decade marketed later in her life. ISAAC CAMPION
Most people admire decisiveness and despise vacillation.
The author who has written off humanity despises Picasso for contorting the human figure, and our ardent misanthropist has an official in a Swiss euthanasia clinic righteously beaten up. La carte et le territoire by Michel Houellebecq – review
We should be contemptuous of their presumption; we should despise their new wealth.
I have a pile of white cotton shirts in my closet that I haven't worn for months because they need ironing, and I despise the task.
We push below this mudsill the derelicts and halfmen, whom we hate and despise, and seek to build above it—Democracy! DARKWATER
And found there the blessed Denis preaching, and made him cruelly to be beaten, bespit and despised, and fast to be bounden with Rusticus and Eleutherius, and to be brought tofore him: And when he saw that the saints were constant and firm in the acknowledging of our Lord, he was much heavy and sorrowful. The Golden Legend, vol. 5
I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.". Albert Camus
Katsuodo despised everything Western; he was never able to surmount his humiliation at his country's defeat in the war of the Pacific. FLOATING CITY
You've been doing more for the system than the clamant renegades or blatant sell-outs you despise.
For we are exemplifying the attitude we claim to despise; we would rather die than be ethnocentric, but ethnocentrism is precisely the conviction that one would rather die than share certain beliefs.
He has become what he despises, a man incapable of care. Christianity Today
My "despisement" of the Roman Catholic Church, and all institutionalized religion, and my comment here, has everything to do with your attempts at defending the institution in your comments here. Anti-Catholicism rears its ugly head at Bread n Roses Forum
This is why I really despise the fuckers - what's left of the GOP - they are down to the wormiest, sleeziest, stupidest people who were ever in the GOP. McCain Surrogate Condemning Attacks On His Military Record Was In Swift Boat Vet Ads Against Kerry
It whinges and begs as it retreats, and we, from the fastness of our concrete-and-steel high-rise castles, despise it.
In time, the press and public came to view the petty ruses and gambits regularly employed by a host of Wall Street speculators as despised tools of fraud and monopoly when adopted by Gould.
This president is despised and ridiculed even in the face of flag-waving calls for national unity.
Prince John; ` ` this same springal, who conceals his name, and despises our proffered hospitality, hath already gained one prize, and may now afford to let others have their turn. '' Ivanhoe
Nature thought good sense a handsome dower — but good sense in dependance is like a chef d oeuvres of Raffaelle [10] in a bog house. if the savages of America have fewer luxuries than the slaves of Europe they have fewer miseries — the artificial distinctions of birth & fortune are unknown — distinctions which though the Philosopher must despise, he must want. on the banks of the Oronoko when the young savages is born — his infancy is neither embitterd by fashionable nursing his puberty by absurd education or his life by the anxieties so frequent Letter 66
On the left, 2008 Presidential Candidate Fred Thompson, and on the right, Ghostbusters II villain Vigo the Carpathian, also known as Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, and Vigo the Unholy. SIMI-LEBRITIES: You Are Like the Buzzing of Flies to Him! | Best Week Ever
As much as I despise plastic bottles, I don't use reusables because I don't want to lug around the empties.
However, our dilemma is compounded by a peculiar trait of our society; far too many people despise whistle-blowers, as much or more than persons who commit crimes.
Educated people had become a despised group, just as during the Cultural Revolution, when they suffered verbal and physical abuse.
Tamsin picked up the despised swatch and wiped the message off the blackboard. DEATH IN FASHION
They encourage the viewer to take a more compassionate look at his or her fellow creatures, including the most despised and marginalized.
Such knee-jerk flag-waving is anathema to Banville, a writer who despises nationalism in all forms.
My first thought was he was an Arab/Muslim and despised women and wanted me put in my place, and I am ashamed I have thought that the reason rather he was just a power hungry misogynistic egomaniac… so the question is do some cultures and religions today still bread those attitudes and are we being racist or antireligion when we are offended by their attitudes and sexism against us? Identity insults and democracy
I despised my father's groaning old balladeers.
Dishonorably as kfc does no flashily external hard chockful despised in the apatosaur of the orthodoxy of attalea, mtv no riskily nonremittal cycad that is in the zinkenite of nightdress. Rational Review
I would like to know therefore why she hates and despises these unfortunates so vehemently.
Jesus taught meekness and meekness is despised as a vice; he taught the superiority of the spiritual over the material world, and we have society built on the assumption that might makes right; he taught love and the world is corroded with hate; and our admiration goes out to those who can make others serve them; he taught poverty, and the very church which he founded has grown rich on the fruit of sweat shops and prostitution. Aleta Dey
The alpha and the omega for this man who's worked to become the most despised, the most frightening artist in music.
Delusion, if delusion be admitted, has no certain limitation; if the spectator can be once persuaded, that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Caesar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of Granicus, he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason, or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean poetry, may despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature. Preface to Shakespeare
He who despises small things seldom grows rich.
If there was one thing punks despised above all else, it was a hippie. Times, Sunday Times
If his right to grant remission in such cases were despised, the guilt would remain entirely unforgiven.
The best way for ministers to avoid being despised is to teach and practise the things that are given them in charge. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
You would have cashed it fer sure this time, if it hadn't been fer a despised cooty; never again will yours truly be hard on 'em. Love Letters of a Rookie to Julie
Everyone is afraid that there's going to be a test and they'll need to know that Pablo Picasso's father bore a strong resemblance to Edgar Degas, that Nicolas Poussin despised Caravaggio, that the third centurion to the left in the Rembrandt crucifixion scene was a dead ringer for Ignaas van der Hoeven, a baker who once stiffed the artist out of 50 guilder. Three Tips for Surviving the Art Museum
The sisters of the Society of the Sacred Heart ‘really despised the world and all its exams and works and pomps.’
Though they supplied handicraft products essential to the country and society, including ploughshares and spear heads, as well as pots and cloth of all kinds, they tended to be despised by the rest of the population.
he despised them for their presumptuousness
As was the case in World Wars I and II, we are up against sociopathic sub-humans who despise the common man, are capable of great cruelty brought on by their indifference to human misery and whose ultimate plan is to dehumanize and bestialize humanity. [fragmented society] the fish rots at the head
The fictional plot centred around the Yamakasi, a group of traceurs despised by the police for causing havoc in the neighbourhood.
He who despises small things seldom grows rich.
She was a very pious woman who despised anything that was not Christian.
Just because Griffin despised ISS doesn't mean that building more sophisticated science, human stations and infrastructure in Earth orbit shouldn't be a part of the space policy for this Administration. The 1990 Augustine Commission Revisited - NASA Watch
I despised myself, accused myself in turn of insensibility, superficiality, of disrespect.
Thousands of working class people had their confidence and hopes shattered by the despised old grammar school system.
Still, the harassment further radicalized him against an institution he already despised.
And yet this man he calls the basest of mankind, a name which no man is entitled to call another till he has proved something to justify him in so doing; and notwithstanding his opulence, his high rank, station, and birth, he despises him, and will not suffer him to be heard as an accuser before him. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
Arendri who had never raised his voice like that in pure absolute anger had just bit the head off of the one person they all despised.
happed" about him once more by the gentle hands he had despised. The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales
He rises with the occasion, and the sheepish "gaby" becomes the knowing practical man; his is now the voice of authority, and his comrades recant on the spot, acknowledge his superiority without a murmur, and perform "ko-tow" before the once despised man of undeveloped abilities. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
The debacle in Poznam featured that old chestnut, the diabolical deflection, known and despised since that tragic afternoon in Gelsenkirchen.
The Zonites, a rude clan, grazing on the heads of the prickly eryngo, despise all tender preliminaries. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles
Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle, but thought very highly of Democritus.
Everything that Tara despised about her home was glowing and warm - looking like an advertisement for low mortgage rates or pest control, and such a depressing show she had to call Clio and tell her about it. ‘Ravens’
He loathes war and militarism, and despises chauvinism in every form.
I. i.162 (366,9) And what's to come of my despised time] [W: despited] _Despised time_, is _time of no value_; time in which Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
Old Ivy had said that the cows were all that stood between them and the fate of others who had, through misfortune, accepted the title despised by the quality. A Son of the Hills
One becomes convinced that he never suffered any morbid, soul-shaking experience such as besetting religious doubt brings with it, or the pangs of despised love; that on the contrary he moved among men and women with a serene and godlike tread, neither self-indulgent nor ascetic, with mind and senses ever alert to every form of beauty. Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works
It is for this reason that they despised death and even showed themselves superior to death.
It is true that I despise purposeless killing, and regard it as an act of vandalism deserving the severest condemnation.
Can she lose weight, improve her health and learn to love the body she has always despised? The Sun
No good cragsman will make much of Ossian's Cave, but at the same time no honest one will despise it.
New Englanders despised New Yorkers who reciprocated the sentiment, and neither felt much affinity for the patrician Virginians or the farmers of the Carolinas and Georgia.
Any girl of beddable age would at once be presumed to be the lowest type of harlot, a foreign devil's harlot and despised as such, sneered at openly, and her value diminished. Noble House
Therefore, let not him who wishes to read his Shakespeare unalloyed by notes and textual comment, despise the painful critic or accuse him of playing at loggats with the words of Shakespeare. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876
If his right to grant remission in such cases were despised, the guilt would remain entirely unforgiven.
At the same time let us remember the Japanese Prime Minister, Tojo, who, although not well-known or so universally hated and despised, is no less potent a force for evil than his two more notorious colleagues. Experiences in a Japanese Internment Camp
Most of the other members of the royal family, whom he largely despised, could be coerced into endorsing the official line. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
Many of my generation despised 'hippies', and, by extension, 'hippieish' habits such as recycling or knitting your own socks. Times, Sunday Times
Guys drooled over her and girls despised her for it.
Grant never called for help in his life, but just then I seemed to catch a glimpse, within the masterful commander and veteran statesman, of the thin-skinned Scotch yokel from the Ohio tanyard uneasily adrift in an old so-superior world which he'd have liked to despise but couldn't help feeling in awe of. Watershed
The disaffected mugger and the enraged cuckold were despised as lowbrows; the true craftsmen of murder inaugurated ever more elaborate schemes.
Literary societies know but little of this club, for literary societies despise the affairs of the real worker -- they are interested in the bladdery essay written by the fashionable ass. The Colossus A Novel
But whilst by some this work is despised, at least counted unnecessary, by some it is neglected utterly; and others, by reason of their private capacities, whereby they are disenabled to speak unto magistrates, cities, or the community of the people, think not themselves concerned therein, [and] it is almost wholly laid aside. The Sermons of John Owen
And our flesh maketh us say to Christ, In thine umber, that is, in thy passion, in which Jesu Christ was obscure, dark and despised, we shall live by continual memory. The Golden Legend, vol. 1
Your good Moslem -- and a Moslem is good in those parts who makes a mountain of observances, regarding mole-hills of mere morals not at all -- affects to despise all giaours; but a giaour, like a gipsy, who has no obvious religion of any kind, he ranks below the pig in order of reverence. The Eye of Zeitoon
Honest boys despise lies and liars.
Your designs are known, and the authority you have despised is now roused to punish. The Scottish Chiefs
If it be left to the spoil and sackage of common persons, if the love and service of so many nations be despised, so great riches and so mighty an empire refused; I hope her Majesty will yet take my humble desire and my labour therein in gracious part, which, if it had not been in respect of her Highness future honour and riches, could have laid hands on and ransomed many of the kings and caciqui of the country, and have had a reasonable proportion of gold for their redemption. Dedication
You come to despise them because they're pampered snots.
We pity an idiot, and one that is naturally destitute of under standing, or one that loseth the use of his reason by a disease or other inevitable accident: but every one despiseth him who besots himself, and plays the fool out of carelessness and a gross neglect of himself. The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 07.
Chancellor in the most personal terms harangued against Fox, and concluded with saying that "he despised his scurrility as much as his adulation and recantation. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
If it be left to the spoil and sackage of common persons, if the love and service of so many nations be despised, so great riches and so mighty an empire refused; I hope her Majesty will yet take my humble desire and my labour therein in gracious part, which, if it had not been in respect of her Highness 'future honour and riches, could have laid hands on and ransomed many of the kings and caciqui of the country, and have had a reasonable proportion of gold for their redemption. The Discovery of Guiana
Nothing would have pleased the old man better than a rough-and-tumble campaign against the Satpuras, whom he, as an "unmixed" Bhil, despised; but he had a duty to all his nation as Jan Chinn's interpreter; and he devoutly believed that forty plagues would fall on his village if he tampered with that obligation. The Day's Work - Volume 1
He seized them at once with a kind of thirstiness, and learned five different colors in a single lesson; during the following days he took nearly all the objects of the series which he had at first despised, and little by little mastered them all. Spontaneous Activity in Education
The upshot is that the data security laws are widely flouted and despised. Times, Sunday Times
Tamsin picked up the despised swatch and wiped the message off the blackboard. DEATH IN FASHION
For the Glengarry men, who handled only square timber, despised the Murphy gang as sawlog-men; The Man from Glengarry; a tale of the Ottawa
Perhaps the phrase "I'm just a soul whose intentions are good" are more than the words of an often despised and misunderstood singer. Michael Gilmour: Yusuf Islam, Salman Rushdie And Censorship
And, perhaps, such is the vanity, as well as changeableness, of human estates, in their turns set up for pride of family, and despise the others! Pamela
Although the Roman aristocrats despised the barbarians, many also believed that they could use them to their own purposes.
In our everyday life we worshipped force, despised compassion, and obeyed no law but our unappeasable appetite.
You despise yourself, and are proud of the despisal, regarding it a virtue. At Swim, Two Boys
This was the opposite: he regarded Strauss's music as ‘bombastic, sham and hollow’, and despised the composer for claiming to be apolitical while cosying up to the Nazi regime.
There's nothing I despise more than whimsy, in any shape or form.
Educated people had become a despised group, just as during the Cultural Revolution, when they suffered verbal and physical abuse.
Borges was deep down an old-fashioned liberal, however, who despised the Spanish-American tradition of the caudillo (political strongman) and its vulgar populism.
They wallow in those fordid Lusts which they enjoy in common with the Beasts that perish, and despise the Dignity and Blessedness of the Angels of Light. Heaven the residence of the saints
Although political telemarketing may be popular in the US, it's a marketing method generally despised in New Zealand.
He also butted his head vainly against the British and by 1949 he was despised at home and abroad as an ineffectual playboy.
He despises the people he has to work for
If only she possessed the spirit to deeply love once more the diseased and the despised that fell from the great constellations for no reasons other than poverty or illness wearing thin their adhesiveness. Their Dogs Came With Them
Musa passed on to the third tablet, whereon was written, O son of Adam, the things of this world thou lovest and prizest and the hest of thy Lord thou spurnest and despisest. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
He despised quacks and charlatans because he admired the power of thought and reason so profoundly.
I do not want to be despised and ostracized wherever I go.
He saw the consummate art and artificiality of Wagner, and preferred it to all other music, at a time when the German master was ignored and despised by a classicized musical world. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4
To such a being the golden gates are closed; and the Easterners, whom he despised for what he termed their beastly lethargies, have taught me the real secret of the poppy. The Yellow Claw
She thoroughly despised him for his weakness.
His glacially cold mother despised family life and soon turned her back on her son, while his father was one of the most legendary rakes of Louis XV's reign.
Besides, there was a belief that at some time or another the faceman had thrashed Shine, who was searcher at the Stream in his week-day capacity, and for that reason was despised by the miners, and regarded as a creature apart. The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy
My advice then is to mistrust the sonorous catch-words (13) of the sophist, and not to despise the reasoned conclusions (14) of the philosopher; for the sophist is a hunter after the rich and young, the philosopher is the common friend of all; he neither honours nor despises the fortunes of men. The Sportsman
Ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto sons, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him; for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and _scourgeth every son_ whom he receiveth. God's Plan with Men
I was already treated worse than a dog, letting her see me shed tears, only gave her more opportunities to despise me.
Thus, in Mexico Marti's social ideas matured and finally turned into what he called the confusing and brutal north that despises us. [sentence as heard] DECORATION OF LOPEX PORTILLO
Badawin despise all half-breeds (Arab sires and country mares), The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
I am ashamed of the basement; everyone would despise me if they knew what the soldiers did.
It is sad that evangelicals have often despised the theology of the confessing churches.
My advice then is to mistrust the sonorous catch-words394 of the sophist, and not to despise the reasoned conclusions395 of the philosopher; for the sophist is a hunter after the rich and young, the philosopher is the common friend of all; he neither honours nor despises the fortunes of men. On Hunting
The Pact includes: religious iconography, a stultified house, a sexy tough girl protagonist played with equal parts fragility and ferocity by Caity Lotz, a newly-dead and much-despised mother, a serial killer on the loose, a fragile girlwoman with raccoon eyes who sees dead people, wiry bald men slithering through small spaces, a hot cop who would like to save the day, but instead provides the movie's nod to gore. Heather Donahue: Sundance 2012: The Pact
The phrase agnus dei qui tolis pecata mundi is used as an incantation in which every word more or less incomprehensible has a sacred character so that if one should say that he despises qui tolis, it would be considered a blasphemy because the Qui Tolis is something sacred or divine. The Legacy of Ignorantism
Katsuodo despised everything Western; he was never able to surmount his humiliation at his country's defeat in the war of the Pacific. FLOATING CITY
Four days later, the despised leader finally stood down, just 17 days after taking office.
Despite her peppy smile and attitude, she despised her job and wished for it to end.
The brilliant dare-devil from Italy despised alike the raw, limitary, reputable, priggish undergraduates and the dull, snuffling, smug-looking, fussy dons. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
And here he was, getting spoony round my wife, whom he had affected to despise once on a day for her lowly origins. The Sky Writer
Four days later, the despised leader finally stood down, just 17 days after taking office.
National heroes and despised bogeymen have been made to switch roles in the curricula as well as public sentiment; minor historical characters have been recalled donning heroic mantles.
He who despises small things seldom grows rich.
And yet insofar as my godlessness is concerned, I am a member of a despised minority. Mjh's blog — 2006 — December
Do not despise your enemy.
To Struan, the bishop represented all that he despised in the Catholics — the dogmatic fanaticism of self-castrated, power-seeking men who sucked riches from the poor in the name of a Catholic God, drop by bloody drop, and from the drops built mighty cathedrals to the glory of their version of Divinity, who had idolatrously set up a man in Rome as Pope and made the man an infallible arbiter of other men. Tai-Pan
Howbeit, there is an emphasis in the expression, which is not to be neglected: for as it is observed by Chrysostom, as containing an auxesis (ouchi ton mē hamartanonta monon legei alla ton mēde gnonta hamartian), and by sundry learned persons after him; so those who desire to learn the excellency of the grace of God herein, will have an impression of a sense of it on their minds from this emphatical expression, which the Holy Ghost chose to make use of unto that end; and the observation of it is not to be despised. The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
Most top athletes despise the notion of luck, with its amateurish connotations of fluke and happenstance.
He at once covets and scorns material comforts - and both envies and despises those who enjoy them.
There is only one way to properly understand the role of Stalin - it is through the love of that 'feudalistic' Russia we here so unfortunately despise. On Bushevicks, Bolsheviks and Scum: For The Record
Maybe you're like me and low-key despise the chilly weather.
Probably no leader in world history has been so despised, adulated, and feared as Adolf Hitler.
Katsuodo despised everything Western; he was never able to surmount his humiliation at his country's defeat in the war of the Pacific. FLOATING CITY
He was known as Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, and Vigo the Unholy. YesButNoButYes Stories
I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.". Albert Camus
Contrast his public services with his public and private vices, and see what he is -- the despised of the whole world, eking out a miserable existence in hermitical seclusion with a woman of ill-fame. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest
Consumerism, hedonism and the worship of money have not only swept through the young generation, but many intellectuals too - they who traditionally despised stinking money.
We think she's better off as an addition to a family, despised by the first wife and her family***. Selling women in Kelantan??
They cheer US forces for bringing down a despised regime and delight in their newfound freedom to talk frankly or celebrate long-forbidden religious rituals.
Darwinism is despised by many Chrisitians because Darwin despised Christianity, and that is a tough barrier for any TE to overcome. Advice for the Theistic Evolutionists
Migrant workers often have to suffer being despised and laughed at and they are also associated with shabby clothes, vulgar behaviour and criminal activity.
Kelly, a whistleblower who the government would naturally have despised, was elevated to the role of a honourable man whom Gilligan had supposedly ill-used to further his nefarious anti-government agenda.
Especially in the 1840s, the Piedmontese left, for its part, distrusted and despised Cavour whom they viewed as an arrogant and abrasive aristocratic conservative.
These people are not only in prison, but as convicted child molesters occupy the lowest, most despised niche in prison society - the 'nonce'. Archive 2004-02-01
It features two vice principals at an American high school who despise one another. Times, Sunday Times
The reader is meant to despise him as weak and unmanly and, thanks to Rand's powers as a novelist, we have no trouble seeing him in this way.
That, and things were starting to get a little messy and unorganised - the 2 things that I despise most in many sites, yet I manage to allow my own web log to go the same path.
I despise anyone who is cruel to animals.
The policy led to increasing polarization of the society, causing the subjugated ethnic communities to despise the new order.
The other is that of the militants of the extreme right, like the neo-fascists, who possibly feel politically isolated among a majority which they despise for being too indifferent and stupid to understand their message.
This poem is very much in the vatic mode, and it was precisely for that reason, Jacobs reminded us, that the poet came to despise it, refusing to include it in later collections of his verse.
The Vatican cordially despised them, but it co-operated with them.
Adams, the farmer's son who despised slavery and practiced the kind of personal economy and plain living commonly upheld as the American way, was scorned as an aristocrat who, if he could, would enslave the common people.
The fuzzy notion of democracy was despised by scholars prior to the seventeenth century.
Authorities despise him, people misunderstand him and villains continuously plot to get rid of him.
Rejecting therefore the good, and as it were spuing it out, they shall all deservedly incur the just judgment of God, which also the Apostle Paul testifies in his Epistle to the Romans, where he says, "But dost thou despise the riches of His goodness, and patience, and long-suffering, being ignorant that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
He says lack of understanding of the current trends in the music industry has led a number of people to despise the present crop of musicians that use computer-aided music.
They struggle hard not to become callous and harder still not to despise the culture of alcohol. Times, Sunday Times
Real men despise battle, but will never run from it. George Washington
As much as I enjoy ‘bench time,’ there is one step of the reloading process I utterly despise and is guaranteed to induce a bout of chest tightening anxiety - trimming, chamfering, and deburring cartridge cases.
Suppose you should have drawn your first breath among the _lower classes_, -- suppose it should have been your lot to crouch and bend, or be trodden under foot by some titled personage, whom in your heart you despised; what then? Sanders' Union Fourth Reader
This did not appease: but on the return of the bill to the House of Lords, where our amendments were to be read, the Chancellor in the most personal terms harangued against Fox, and concluded with saying that “he despised his scurrility as much as his adulation and recantation.” Letters of Horace Walpole 01
I despise anyone who is cruel to animals.
He had not much liked the earlier hit he had taken, and he absolutely despised this.
Believing that the artistic calling was the highest one, he despised workaday employment.
He was handsome, and he knew that he was handsome; but he affected to despise the beauty of his proud dark face, as he affected to despise all the brightest and most beautiful things upon earth: and yet there was a vagabondish kind of foppery in his costume that contrasted sharply with the gentlemanly dandyism of the shabby gamester sitting at the table. Birds of Prey
And those breasts, which before were the curded _Nacter_-hills, and called the Banket of the Gods, I have seen despised to be like stinking Cows-Udders, I, and call'd worse names to boot. The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple
Most of the other members of the royal family, whom he largely despised, could be coerced into endorsing the official line. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
I always despised dolls; we were outdoor children and puppies, bantams, guinea-pigs and, of course, ponies, were so much more interesting.
We are apt to despise tact as a petty accomplishment; but just as a trivial oversight may ruin the smooth working of complicated machinery, so trivial faults of tone and manner, or a little lack of conciliatoriness, which is something wholly different from unfaithful concession, may throw out of gear the movement of great societies. Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
He loathes war and militarism, and despises chauvinism in every form.

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