How To Use Despised In A Sentence
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They acted out of a conscience that patriots despised but at least could understand.
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Truly, they are now loathed and despised in newspapers across the world.
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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.
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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.
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Like the rancher, the irrigator was a conservative and despised any intervention from government.
Centennial
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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
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She ended up living and working with Hong Kong's most despised and poorest inhabitants in a slum known as the Walled City.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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This president is despised and ridiculed even in the face of flag-waving calls for national unity.
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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.
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Educated people had become a despised group, just as during the Cultural Revolution, when they suffered verbal and physical abuse.
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Tamsin picked up the despised swatch and wiped the message off the blackboard.
DEATH IN FASHION
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They encourage the viewer to take a more compassionate look at his or her fellow creatures, including the most despised and marginalized.
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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
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I despised my father's groaning old balladeers.
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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
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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
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The alpha and the omega for this man who's worked to become the most despised, the most frightening artist in music.
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If there was one thing punks despised above all else, it was a hippie.
Times, Sunday Times
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If his right to grant remission in such cases were despised, the guilt would remain entirely unforgiven.
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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)
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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
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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
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The sisters of the Society of the Sacred Heart ‘really despised the world and all its exams and works and pomps.’
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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.
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he despised them for their presumptuousness
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The fictional plot centred around the Yamakasi, a group of traceurs despised by the police for causing havoc in the neighbourhood.
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She was a very pious woman who despised anything that was not Christian.
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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
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I despised myself, accused myself in turn of insensibility, superficiality, of disrespect.
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Thousands of working class people had their confidence and hopes shattered by the despised old grammar school system.
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Still, the harassment further radicalized him against an institution he already despised.
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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.
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happed" about him once more by the gentle hands he had despised.
The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales
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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
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The debacle in Poznam featured that old chestnut, the diabolical deflection, known and despised since that tragic afternoon in Gelsenkirchen.
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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.
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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’
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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
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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
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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
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It is for this reason that they despised death and even showed themselves superior to death.
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Can she lose weight, improve her health and learn to love the body she has always despised?
The Sun
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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.
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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
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If his right to grant remission in such cases were despised, the guilt would remain entirely unforgiven.
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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
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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
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Many of my generation despised 'hippies', and, by extension, 'hippieish' habits such as recycling or knitting your own socks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Guys drooled over her and girls despised her for it.
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The disaffected mugger and the enraged cuckold were despised as lowbrows; the true craftsmen of murder inaugurated ever more elaborate schemes.
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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
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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
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Your designs are known, and the authority you have despised is now roused to punish.
The Scottish Chiefs
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The upshot is that the data security laws are widely flouted and despised.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tamsin picked up the despised swatch and wiped the message off the blackboard.
DEATH IN FASHION
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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
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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
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Although the Roman aristocrats despised the barbarians, many also believed that they could use them to their own purposes.
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In our everyday life we worshipped force, despised compassion, and obeyed no law but our unappeasable appetite.
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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.
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Educated people had become a despised group, just as during the Cultural Revolution, when they suffered verbal and physical abuse.
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Borges was deep down an old-fashioned liberal, however, who despised the Spanish-American tradition of the caudillo (political strongman) and its vulgar populism.
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Although political telemarketing may be popular in the US, it's a marketing method generally despised in New Zealand.
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He also butted his head vainly against the British and by 1949 he was despised at home and abroad as an ineffectual playboy.
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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
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He despised quacks and charlatans because he admired the power of thought and reason so profoundly.
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I do not want to be despised and ostracized wherever I go.
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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
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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
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She thoroughly despised him for his weakness.
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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.
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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
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It is sad that evangelicals have often despised the theology of the confessing churches.
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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
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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
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Four days later, the despised leader finally stood down, just 17 days after taking office.
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Despite her peppy smile and attitude, she despised her job and wished for it to end.
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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
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Four days later, the despised leader finally stood down, just 17 days after taking office.
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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.
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And yet insofar as my godlessness is concerned, I am a member of a despised minority.
Mjh's blog — 2006 — December
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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
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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
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Probably no leader in world history has been so despised, adulated, and feared as Adolf Hitler.
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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
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He was known as Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, and Vigo the Unholy.
YesButNoButYes Stories
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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
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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.
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We think she's better off as an addition to a family, despised by the first wife and her family***.
Selling women in Kelantan??
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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.
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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
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Migrant workers often have to suffer being despised and laughed at and they are also associated with shabby clothes, vulgar behaviour and criminal activity.
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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.
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Especially in the 1840s, the Piedmontese left, for its part, distrusted and despised Cavour whom they viewed as an arrogant and abrasive aristocratic conservative.
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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
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The Vatican cordially despised them, but it co-operated with them.
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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.
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The fuzzy notion of democracy was despised by scholars prior to the seventeenth century.
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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
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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
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He had not much liked the earlier hit he had taken, and he absolutely despised this.
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Believing that the artistic calling was the highest one, he despised workaday employment.
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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
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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
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I always despised dolls; we were outdoor children and puppies, bantams, guinea-pigs and, of course, ponies, were so much more interesting.
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‘At that time, we were a little despised by the local people, and felt they gave us cold stares,’ she said.
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This is hardly surprising because these are qualities despised by most of the Guardian-reading beardies who make up the university teaching departments.
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He comes from a high-class family of mandarin intellectuals who despised commerce and viewed making money as vulgar.
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Those numbers at least indicate a willingness to hustle, which is not to be despised.
'Self Publishing' meets 'Never Say Never'
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Educated people had become a despised group, just as during the Cultural Revolution, when they suffered verbal and physical abuse.
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Martuccio greeving to see himselfe thus despised, because he was poore: made such good meanes, that he was provided of a small Barke; and calling such friends (as he thought fit) to his association, made a solemne vow, that he would never returne backe to Liparis, untill he was rich, and in better condition.
The Decameron
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The painter Cristina C rdenas has used art to raise up a man who in these borderlands is officially hunted and despised.
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In National, party presidents are despised on principle, and with a violent passion.
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The most significant change in the shakeup was the replacement of the interior minister, Habib el-Adly, who heads internal security forces and is widely despised by protesters for the brutality some officers have shown.
New Egyptian government named
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‘Indios,’ still widely despised by many of the wealthy in Mexico, are serving notice that they will no longer be treated as political nonentities.
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He despised music competitions, so integral to the classical world, branding them ‘a blood sport.’
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He quotes Lia as saying: "Because the Lord heard that I was despised, he hath given this also to me; and she called his name Simeon" (Gen., xxix, 33).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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The Romans considered the leek a superior vegetable, unlike onions and garlic which were despised as coarse foods for the poor.
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I don’t think that Orwell was against collectivization per se, only forced collectivization, which is why he despised Joseph Stalin and the Bolsheviks.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Animal Farm:
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Conscientious objectors, 'conchies', were despised and vilified to the end.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alice especially despised those sorts of affected fools found in disproportionately large numbers in academe: bloviators, bad photographers, bad writers, poseurs.
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They all despaired of obtaining it from the coalesced powers, whilst they had a gang of professed regicides at their head; and several of the least desperate republicans would have joined with better men to shake them wholly off, and to produce something more ostensible, if they had not been reiteratedly told that their sole hope of peace was the very contrary to what they naturally imagined: that they must leave off their cabals and insurrections, which could serve no purpose but to bring in that royalty which was wholly rejected by the coalesced kings; that, to satisfy them, they must tranquilly, if they could not cordially, submit themselves to the tyranny and the tyrants they despised and abhorred.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)
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Moreover, he despised and vilipended them as an inferior and conquered race, who, by Akbar's innovating policy had been allowed to usurp a position of political and social equality with their natural masters, which was equally inappropriate and undesirable.
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He clearly despised the commercialism of the contemporary film industry.
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Mostly, it was the underclasses that disappeared - the poor, the despised religious or ethnic minority.
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But Bennett was, of course, despised by the intelligentsia because the bounder made money from literature.
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Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
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From the mock black and white flashback in which the U. S military discovers the subversive effects of heavy pot use, to an engaging montage that introduces Dale Denton and his liberal opinion but non-liberal use of marijuana, while going about his work as a despised Process Server, Pineapple Express makes an excellent first impression and feels like a rather affinitive take on today's slackers who partake in casual drug use.
DVD Times
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Four days later, the despised leader finally stood down, just 17 days after taking office.
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I always assumed he would have despised me and I cordially despised him in return.
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Even after the Reformation extreme sectarians despised Anglican clergy as ‘magicians, sorcerers, enchanters’.
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Note, Grace despised is grace forfeited, like Esau's birthright.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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He despised them because he reckoned they'd sold out of the only game that mattered, the fighting game.
FIELD OF BLOOD
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Rock, like the newly-despised Trent Harbor, had the power to make Ally love him; he had the opportunity to have his love requited.
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Educated people had become a despised group, just as during the Cultural Revolution, when they suffered verbal and physical abuse.
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Dehumanising them and creating the impression that they are a minority to be despised is a tactic of extremism and the servants of fascism.
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When a segment of society feels despised and feared, its behaviour will reflect societal expectations.
Times, Sunday Times
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To be sure, a popular work reappraising the issues associated with McCarthy is overdue, and a reappraisal of McCarthy himself is not to be despised.
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Pâte de Guimauve" owes its healing nutritive character to this despised univalve, which is said to enter largely into its composition.
Wild Nature Won By Kindness
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WASHINGTON was old, dignified and wealthy; and these factitious advantages, never to be despised in gilding a contemporary renown, possessed, unquestionably, a greater influence upon the men of his times, than they would exert among us to-day.
National Disappointment. A Discourse Occasioned by the Assassination of President Lincoln.
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The book was for many days snubbed, buffeted, browbeaten; and the care fully-woven tapestry was torn into shreds and trampled upon; and it seemed that the patiently sculptured shrine was overtured and despised and desecrated.
St. Elmo
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He despised quacks and charlatans because he admired the power of thought and reason so profoundly.
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And at the last when Barnabas came to Rome preaching the faith of Jesu Christ, the philosophers mocked him as he had been mad or out of his wits, and, as some say, Clement was the first philosopher that mocked him and despised his predication, and in scorn put to him this question, saying: What is the cause that culex, which is a little beast, hath six feet and two wings, and an elephant which is a great beast hath but four feet and no wings?
The Golden Legend, vol. 6
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'kings of finance' -- then I suddenly took a 'scunner' as we Scots say, at the whole lot, and hated and despised myself for ever so much as thinking that it might serve my own ends to become their tool.
The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
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He despised William Pitt, notwithstanding the similar views they both held.
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If its first necessity is attended to, with the augmentation of population commerce will come to give it the consequent movement and animation, and the Mineria will come to complete the circle of its prosperity; so that it is now difficult to perceive the grand importance, commercial and political, which this despised peninsula, which is called Lower California, will yet attain when the transition of time and the sequel of events come to realize these
Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited
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The Praetorian Guard, who despised their unmilitary emperor, defected to Galba on the promise of a donative, and the senate declared Nero a public enemy.
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He once again failed at everything he tried and went to work for his father clerking at the tannery store - a job he despised.
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He despised the ‘soft, unaggressive music (and non-threatening images) ‘of artists like Michael Jackson or Luther Vandross.’
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Nevertheless, to compare any of Stickley's masterpieces in this show with the many inferior "Mission" imitations that Stickley despised is to understand why his work is not just so highly valued by so many today, but also so deeply loved.
Four-Square Reformer
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Yet as his longtime friend and Boswell, Joe Conzo, notes in "Mambo Diablo: My Journey With Tito Puente" 2010, the percussionist, composer and bandleader apparently had a grudging respect for labels; he despised the word "salsa" as a generic indicator of Hispanic pop, but he welcomed the term "Afro-Cuban music.
Long Live the Mambo King
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He despised formal ceremony and sometimes shocked foreign dignitaries by meeting them in his slippers or a threadbare jacket.
America Past and Present
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He despised William Pitt, notwithstanding the similar views they both held.
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The children at Eton rather despised the sort of common fish we were given: cod, herring, mackerel.
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The poll also revealed 11 types of despised office characters including The Brown Noser, The Blagger, The Clock Watcher and The Lech.
25% Hate Their Co-Workers | Impact Lab
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Though they despised Shylock, the two managed to swallow their pride long enough to petition him to loan them three thousand ducats, to be paid back as soon as Antonio's ships returned to port.
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It's widely despised and held in disrepute by a large segment of the Saudi population.
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Not to mention Suarez, Villacorta, Ordonez, all of whom had lost their footwork, bent back the muleta with their cowardly elbows, and lost their nerves in the ways he so despised.
Carlos The Impossible (Part 2)
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She could feel her skin burning under the hot Savannah sun and although she detested the snow, she despised the sun just as much.
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From this, and from the many groans and sighs that are reported of the boy (who still struggled to keep reading, an activity feared and despised by his father, as it was by the owner of Frederick Douglass), we receive a prefiguration of the politician who declared in 1856, “I used to be a slave.”
Lincoln’s Emancipation
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Four days later, the despised leader finally stood down, just 17 days after taking office.
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He is despised in the West because of the inhuman brutality of his dictatorship.
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He only ever sat for the occasional portrait and despised the excesses and vanities of his day.
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Where did that leave the police, the despised but at least legitimate bastion of law and order ?
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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And it is a maxim not to be despised, Tho peace be made, yet it is interest that keeps peace; and I hope you will not trust such peace except so far as you see interest upon it.
At the Opening of Parliament Under the Protectorate
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Tamsin picked up the despised swatch and wiped the message off the blackboard.
DEATH IN FASHION
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Second, Anderson despised and attacked the creed of king and country, the cult of war memorials, national anthems, patriotism.
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Amaranths are sometimes thought fit only for pigs (hence the common name "pigweed" for one despised American species) and worthy of picking only when one is driven by poverty.
1 Introduction
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Four days later, the despised leader finally stood down, just 17 days after taking office.
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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
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The grammarians ' attitude toward language, combined with the mechanical instruction in grammar required by the texts, made the subject feared and despised by pupils and teachers alike.
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he despised the esthetic of minimalism
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She could not conceive the feelings of a woman who carried the child of a man she despised.
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She despised her upper-class, convention-bound Venetian upbringing, and could escape only in the fantastic stories that her beloved Barbary told her of exotic places and other gods, unruled by men and custom.
So It Wasn't Jealousy After All?
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Not that I know much about him, just that my philosophical friend Kevin Rice despised him.
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Alice especially despised those sorts of affected fools found in disproportionately large numbers in academe: bloviators, bad photographers, bad writers, poseurs.
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Can she lose weight, improve her health and learn to love the body she has always despised?
The Sun
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It would signal the triumph of French civilisation over the despised rosbifs.
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When this method was first introduced, it was calumniated and despised -- called adulteration of wine, and even prohibited by the governments of Europe; but, DR.
The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines
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Few Australians join political parties - politics is now the preserve of despised professionals.
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Naturally, and by tradition, this means it's always been loathed and despised by the rest of Scotland.
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Dire circumstances gave social sanction to small scale corruption and spivs were simultaneously despised and admired as buccaneers.
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The meats are not boiled, but gently coaxed in the despised sous-vide.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her boast was the reason she eventually wed the unprepossessing, even ugly, deer-legged, voyageur who was her much despised husband.
THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
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And every so often, despised water descended from the sky, flooding the hollows under the privet where he preferred to lie before an owl swooped from nowhere one night and carried him away.
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George is certainly mocked, but he is not execrated as a vile foreigner and un-British despot, as he had been by satirists and cartoonists in the 1760s and 1770s, when he was widely despised.
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One, that she would yet make Mr. Raleigh feel her power, yielded to shame and self-contempt, and she despised herself for a woman won unwooed.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861
