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despised

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1. despised - Adjective

2. despised - Verb

4. despised - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Despise

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According to the Rigsthula, Thralls were despised and looked down upon. Source: Internet

A key reason Ferguson police were despised is that the politicians had turned the police into tax collectors for the city. Source: Internet

Although he resists Red Beard initially, Yasumoto comes to admire his wisdom and courage, and to perceive the patients at the clinic, whom he at first despised, as worthy of compassion and dignity. Source: Internet

Altman despised the phenomenally popular television series MASH which followed his popular 1970 film, citing it as being the antithesis of what his movie was about, and citing its anti-war messages as being "racist." Source: Internet

As Lewis Bernstein Namier said: "Some Germans undoubtedly left because they would not live under the dominion of a race which they had previously oppressed and despised." Source: Internet

Baldwin both feared and despised Lloyd George, and one of his aims was to keep him out of power. Source: Internet

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