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DESPISED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Treated with dislike or contempt
Synonyms:
despised; detested; hated; scorned
Classified under:
Similar:
unloved (not loved)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb despise
Context examples:
To cast it in with Hyde, was to die to a thousand interests and aspirations, and to become, at a blow and forever, despised and friendless.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I see him now, going away in custody, despised by the congregation.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I wouldn't marry a man I hated or despised.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
From his wife's account of him she could discern Mr Smith to have been a man of warm feelings, easy temper, careless habits, and not strong understanding, much more amiable than his friend, and very unlike him, led by him, and probably despised by him.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
There was an offensive tone in it, perhaps, and yet in the main it struck me as mere riotous outcry, the noisy reception of one who amused and interested them, rather than of one they disliked or despised.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The couple were thus revealed to me clearly: both removed their cloaks, and there was 'the Varens,' shining in satin and jewels,—my gifts of course,—and there was her companion in an officer's uniform; and I knew him for a young roue of a vicomte—a brainless and vicious youth whom I had sometimes met in society, and had never thought of hating because I despised him so absolutely.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I resolved to fly far from the scene of my misfortunes; but to me, hated and despised, every country must be equally horrible.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The squire made no bones about the matter; he despised the captain.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
You will be censured, slighted, and despised, by everyone connected with him.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I despised them, to a man.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
