despised

It happened once that the young one which was caressed and loved was smothered by the too great affection of the Mother, while the despised one was nurtured and reared in spite of the neglect to which it was exposed.

These feet which would have saved me I despised, and I gloried in these antlers which have proved my destruction.”

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.

You will be censured, slighted, and despised, by everyone connected with him.