despise


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Synonyms for despise

to regard with utter contempt and disdain

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to regard with extreme dislike and hostility

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Synonyms for despise

look down on with disdain

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I have had enough; and now I shall not live for you to despise me!"
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"Despise you, my pretty child!" replied the officer with an air of superior and distinguished gallantry, "despise you,
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'The DFA relies only on official military intelligence; we despise civilian sources,' he said.
Locsin: DFA to only rely on military intelligence on China's reported missile tests
Those who despise the US and its Christian civilisation, also detest us.
US - Kenya Relations: A friendship that yields results
It is not a hate crime to despise or detest Donald Trump, or anyone else for that matter.
It is not a crime to detest the President
If citizens Lilly understood the current role of lobbyists in government, they would probably despise lobbyists even more than they do.
Lobbyists in control
But as much as I despise Evans, despise lynch mobs more.
TROLLS AS BAD AS EVANS
Those are the foundations on which the civilised West was built - and the values that the bloodthirsty fanatics of Islam's wild fringe despise for they threaten their backward, domineering world-view.
WE SAY
IHAVE grown to despise the television adverts for "Elite Singles", an on-line dating agency for successful, professional, "exceptional" people.
So why is it these 'elite' people can't find love?
Mr Robinson said each protest was a "cry for help from Middle England" but he disagreed with some EDL far-right elements, adding: "I despise Nazis as much as I despise Islamists."
Leader quits 'part of problem' EDL
Eggplant I used to despise it, but now I can't get enough.
Reviled veggies, redeemed
I was really undecided as I don't rate Cameron or Osbourne in the Conservative Party and I would say I actively despise Mandelson in the Labour Party.
Who to vote for in a cynical election?
We despise ourselves, despise who we are, aspire only to compare ourselves with all that is not us, or to be like those who are not like us.
We don't care about our roots
"I despise high heels because they damage arches, are inconvenient and uncomfortable.
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