Sentences with despise
de·spise
D d - I can never, ever forgive him. I despise him. [VERB noun]
- He despises flattery
- They despise our way of life, care nothing for our cherished beliefs, and won't be happy until they take us all down.
- Schools in poor areas are effectively segregated; unemployment has exploded the traditional family; jobless sons despise jobless fathers.
- They love medicine but despise what has happened to it; the endless paperwork, the endless rules.
- I respect that in somebody, and I despise those people who throw dirt in the faces of the people who brought them into public prominence.
- Some of us love them, while others despise them.
- SYNONYMY NOTE: despise implies a strong emotional response toward that which one looks down upon with contempt or aversion [to despise a hypocrite]; to scorn is to feel indignation toward or deep contempt for [to scorn the offer of a bribe]; disdain implies a haughty or arrogant contempt for what one considers beneath one's dignity [to disdain flattery]; contemn, chiefly a literary word, implies a vehement disapproval of a person or thing as base, vile, or despicable