despise
/dɪˈspaɪz/ verb B2- To regard with contempt or scorn. · Near-synonym: hate· Katie despised video games because she saw them as a trashy, boring waste of time.
- To disregard or ignore.
He/she/it despises · Past despised · Past participle despised · -ing form despising
Verb forms
- Base form
- despise
- He/she/it
- despises
- Past
- despised
- Past participle
- despised
- -ing form
- despising
From the library
You don’t despise money, do you, Kelly?”
It was the jackal--Tabaqui, the Dish-licker--and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps.
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.
The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest.
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