• Synonyms: despised, detested, hated, scorned
  Meaning: treated with contempt

• It was horrible; he was making love to her, this wretch, whom she despised.
• The scouring action of the tidal currents themselves is not to be despised.
• And the rich men of His time despised Him and spit upon Him and crucified Him!"
• In aristocracies it is not exactly labor that is despised, but labor with a view to profit.
• For one who had enjoyed only a field hand's privileges for improvement, he was not to be despised.
• You have despised my counsels and your crimes have converted you into a monster, the horror of heaven and earth.
• Despised love struck not with woe That head of curly knots, Nor stomach troubles laid him low, Young Stephen Dowling Bots.
• It made him wince, secretly--for she was a "nigger." That he was one himself was far from reconciling him to that despised race.
• Chauvelin, who had all the Frenchman's prejudice against the despised race, motioned to the fellow to keep at a respectful distance.
• This is ripe quite early in September, and is made into Elder wine, to be drunk hot in winter, a comfort by no means to be despised.

0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Hilda Rix Nicholas, License CC BY-SA 4.0