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Sentence Examples Dire circumstances gave social sanction to small scale corruption and spivs were simultaneously despised and admired as buccaneers. The Belgians in the Congo, the French in Algeria, practiced torture and sexual humiliation on despised recalcitrant natives. Believing that the artistic calling was the highest one, he despised workaday employment. Because of their religious rites the Yezidis were despised by the rest of Kurds and lived in isolation. If his right to grant remission in such cases were despised, the guilt would remain entirely unforgiven. Different people brought out different sides of him, and he was known to be an angel to those he liked and a devil to those he despised. Second, Anderson despised and attacked the creed of king and country, the cult of war memorials, national anthems, patriotism. We got along when she was sober, but otherwise we despised and loathed one another. Naturally, and by tradition, this means it's always been loathed and despised by the rest of Scotland. It would signal the triumph of French civilisation over the despised rosbifs. He despised his father for looking down on his mother and for neglecting Lynn. She could feel her skin burning under the hot Savannah sun and although she detested the snow, she despised the sun just as much. He also butted his head vainly against the British and by 1949 he was despised at home and abroad as an ineffectual playboy. Although political telemarketing may be popular in the US, it's a marketing method generally despised in New Zealand. It is for this reason that they despised death and even showed themselves superior to death. Although the Roman aristocrats despised the barbarians, many also believed that they could use them to their own purposes. They encourage the viewer to take a more compassionate look at his or her fellow creatures, including the most despised and marginalized. Dehumanising them and creating the impression that they are a minority to be despised is a tactic of extremism and the servants of fascism. The fictional plot centred around the Yamakasi, a group of traceurs despised by the police for causing havoc in the neighbourhood. Thousands of working class people had their confidence and hopes shattered by the despised old grammar school system. Show More Sentences This refers to a miser, perhaps the most despised of all types in a world where generosity is the yardstick by which humanity is measured. His father beat him when he was a small child, his teachers despised him for his dullness, his friends avoided him for his short temper. He despised Freud and Jung, for example, referring to them as Tweedledum and Tweedledee. He despised the dull monotone hum of life in the small town of Spring Valley, now at least a few miles behind him. He despised simpering, giggling, weak women who had nothing better to do than cry and make themselves appear ridiculous to gain favor with him. In our everyday life we worshipped force, despised compassion, and obeyed no law but our unappeasable appetite. He had not much liked the earlier hit he had taken, and he absolutely despised this. The fact that the Boers were slavers, and utterly despised the blacks, was of little consequence to Britain's critics. Even those who despised his politics found it difficult to muster hatred for the man. She ended up living and working with Hong Kong's most despised and poorest inhabitants in a slum known as the Walled City. But Bennett was, of course, despised by the intelligentsia because the bounder made money from literature. He only ever sat for the occasional portrait and despised the excesses and vanities of his day. The kids on the street are raided nightly by thieves, rejected and despised by their highly conservative society. On the flip side, hardcore arcade hounds and video jockeys despised the game for its limited combo system and unbalanced cheap-hit ratio. In National, party presidents are despised on principle, and with a violent passion. He despised Adamea for it and it had turned him to spiteful hate and deep bitterness. A woman who dared defy this tradition was despised by her family for staining the reputation of her in-laws. Texture's certainly the reason I despised hard-boiled egg yolks, though it doesn't explain my fear of eating potato salad. The alpha and the omega for this man who's worked to become the most despised, the most frightening artist in music. Borges was deep down an old-fashioned liberal, however, who despised the Spanish-American tradition of the caudillo and its vulgar populism. Show More Sentences As much as Jade despised him, she couldn't help but gush at his gorgeous smile! He comes from a high-class family of mandarin intellectuals who despised commerce and viewed making money as vulgar. The Romans considered the leek a superior vegetable, unlike onions and garlic which were despised as coarse foods for the poor. Despite her peppy smile and attitude, she despised her job and wished for it to end. We despised and rejected him and he endured suffering and pain on our account. The Left in Britain then believed deeply that personal ambition was a petit bourgeois vice to be despised. He is despised in the West because of the inhuman brutality of his dictatorship. I despised myself, accused myself in turn of insensibility, superficiality, of disrespect. I always assumed he would have despised me and I cordially despised him in return. In fact, I can honestly say I hated and despised the sound of fuzzes that I had heard. The fuzzy notion of democracy was despised by scholars prior to the seventeenth century. Arendri who had never raised his voice like that in pure absolute anger had just bit the head off of the one person they all despised. Why bother, ask many commentators, expending moral indignation on a totalitarian dictator who is universally despised? Earlier today we asked you, faithful Twitter followers, which emojis you most despised. It's widely despised and held in disrepute by a large segment of the Saudi population. It is sad that evangelicals have often despised the theology of the confessing churches. He despised quacks and charlatans because he admired the power of thought and reason so profoundly. Still, the harassment further radicalized him against an institution he already despised. Probably no leader in world history has been so despised, adulated, and feared as Adolf Hitler. The syndicalists despised equally the opportunistic orgmen of the parties and the breezy, compromising wheelers and dealers of business. Show More Sentences In particular, the Khoi viewed people without stock as inferior and despised those hunters who stole their stock. It's raining so heavily and the earth smells like patchouli oil which I once despised but since living here it now makes me think of rain and dripping green gardens. Especially in the 1840s, the Piedmontese left, for its part, distrusted and despised Cavour whom they viewed as an arrogant and abrasive aristocratic conservative. New Englanders despised New Yorkers who reciprocated the sentiment, and neither felt much affinity for the patrician Virginians or the farmers of the Carolinas and Georgia. His glacially cold mother despised family life and soon turned her back on her son, while his father was one of the most legendary rakes of Louis XV's reign. Lukashenko openly despised Sannikov and his wife, Irina Khalip, an investigative reporter of international renown. The president and former president, who once despised each other, are cordial but far from friendly. To be sure, a popular work reappraising the issues associated with McCarthy is overdue, and a reappraisal of McCarthy himself is not to be despised. This is hardly surprising because these are qualities despised by most of the Guardian-reading beardies who make up the university teaching departments. Again and again he defied social convention, often by showing concern for the very people who were normally despised or marginalized by respectable society. It was a reminder that there are those who will speak out for even the most despised, if only in loose, off-the-cuff moments. He despised it for showing war not as an arena of bravery and honor but as a locus of dread and fear. Yet here we are, dispensing another dollop of inhumanity to some of the most troubled and despised people in America. Loved or despised by seemingly everyone, Elam is the closest thing the movement has to a rock star. The Praetorian Guard, who despised their unmilitary emperor, defected to Galba on the promise of a donative, and the senate declared Nero a public enemy. Apollonios of Athens won a name for himself among the Greeks as an able speaker in the legal branch of oratory, and as a declaimer he was not to be despised. They cheer US forces for bringing down a despised regime and delight in their newfound freedom to talk frankly or celebrate long-forbidden religious rituals. Truly, they are now loathed and despised in newspapers across the world. The Vatican cordially despised them, but it co-operated with them. And I have always despised the monkish obscurity cultivated by certain academics. Show More Sentences They were modernist, Marxist and anti-Stalinist, despised by communists and ignored by conservatives, the international flotsam and jetsam of the Age of Ideology. Migrant workers often have to suffer being despised and laughed at and they are also associated with shabby clothes, vulgar behaviour and criminal activity. The rabbis honored the victory won by the Maccabees, but despised the Hasmonean dynasty that came to power as a result. He is despised by the overwhelming majority of the population, and most of them will secretly cheer if he gets a drubbing at the hands of the protestors. A true country-club hillbilly, Cornette's pompous demeanor, obnoxious jackets, and endless stream of double-talk have made him one of the most despised men in wrestling. The Nobles despised and hated all others and took no thought for usefulness and profit of lord and men. The programmes and their music were immensely popular, although their version of Scottish music and identity was despised by many modernists. When Lord Shelburne resigned in 1783, King George III, who despised Fox, offered to appoint Pitt to the office of prime minister. By 1870, Morris had become a public figure in Britain, resulting in repeated press requests for photographs, which he despised. Baldwin both feared and despised Lloyd George, and one of his aims was to keep him out of power. These reforms gained him enemies in the upper classes, especially among the high nobility, who despised him as a social upstart. As he despised the Geats, he decided not to demand hostages from their prominent clans. Since then he led the Blue Knights con sortium in 2012 and was back a year later as requisitioner against the despised board. Thanks, then, to white South Africans, who, before dumping Apartheid, were universally despised and proved instantly booable at the movies. The despised pauper, most likely a foreigner, when his spirit has gone to its final resting-place, is probably carried to the Potter's Field. The Tower had long been a symbol of oppression, despised by Londoners, and Henry's building programme was unpopular. Now, sadly, we'll probably never know whether these comedy titanesses really despised one another. He despised being away from the rest of the student body and would occasionally act out in defiance by smarting off or by being uncooperative. She realised to her horror that she had unwittingly helped those people she most despised. The yahooism he had always despised was suddenly yoked to an ideology he viewed as reckless. Show More Sentences Unlike many of his predecessors, James VI generally despised Gaelic culture. Hamlet is suicidal in the first soliloquy not because his mother quickly remarries but because of her adulterous affair with the despised Claudius which makes Hamlet his son. Stalin is known to have despised his first son, Yakov Dzhugashvili, who is thought to have committed suicide in 1943 by electrifying himself on a perimeter fence. Although generally despised, the blood-sucking human body louse, Pediculus humanus, has gained newfound popularity among scientists for a surprising genetic feature. More and more Protestants are kneeling in supplication before the quangos, commissions, agencies and ombudspersons that they once so rightly despised. In the early days of the Protectorate, the fqih or clerk-interpreter was often an Algerian who despised the local Arabs as rustics and regarded the Berbers as scarcely human. Never have I admired and despised a man simultaneously to the same extent. According to the Rigsthula, Thralls were despised and looked down upon. When his ideas were put into practice, Ruskin despised the spate of public buildings built with references to the Ducal Palace, including the University Museum in Oxford. Hundreds of the composite progeny are daily crossing the color line and carrying as much of the despised blood as an albicant skin can conceal without betrayal. He had a writer's interest in the occult, notably mesmerism, but despised fraud and believed in the superiority of the scientific method over superstition. He despised his time there, being bullied, bored, and homesick. Pomophobes who teach find that they are surrounded by less-than-reverent students who want to do the latest thing, namely the despised you-know-what. Some Bantu groups, however, remained enslaved well until the 1930s, and continued to be despised and discriminated against by large parts of Somali society. So that when they discovered that we were thieves and men who sought to force their wives and daughters to commit sin with them, they despised us. George Downing despised the Dutch and from his position in the Hague gave a full and detailed account of all the political affairs in the United Provinces. Examples from Classical Literature She not only despised but hated her stepchild from the moment that she saw her. Still the floes were far heavier than those met with in Baffin Bay, and by no means to be despised. In Calendar's driver, however, he had an adversary of abilities by no means to be despised. When this once dawned upon him, Austin despised the knickerbockered curate more than ever. That he naturally despised the articles of such a soulless faith was evident in his constant inclination to play hooky. By this means the great man, still despised as a Boston bean-eater, was able to bring his adversary to ruin. Being a woman, she should, theoretically, have disliked and despised him for this. In short never was anyone so despised as was Eos by all the chorus of the birds. Had they but known it, he despised them too greatly to think of mauling them. Oh, how you must have despised me for the folly, the meanness of my suspicions! She despised herself for the meanness of her passion, and Joseph for its ill success. But she did not suffer so much, because she despised the triviality of these other people. But how could the Church get souls were it not for this same fornication, despised and berated? They prudishly despised the anatomic study of the human figure, of landscape and chiaroscuro. So all pitied the poor Vicar, despised his uppish, false-hearted wife, and most hated the young squire. The despised but long dominant race was underfoot, and they stamped it down. Foreigners were things which in his untraveled, unlettered ignorance he despised. Stained and despised by the world, as I am, I will not pollute this sanctuary! Paul despised the musicians who scream at a flatted f but hunger for the flesh pots after the performance. Then the struggle begins, for the razorback loves its life, despised pig of the Florida flatwoods though it is. Show More Sentences He commands that this should be done, and by no means be neglected and despised. They promised and disappointed, flattered and allured, captured and despised. We belong to that despised class, 'nouveau riche,' therefore we are extremely short on noted ancestors and relics and things. He, too, now read the Baron like an open book, and reading him despised him. He despised him also for the orderliness with which he did his official work. This Solomon had an evil wife, wherethrough he weened that there had been no good woman, and so he despised them in his books. This Solomon had an evil wife, wherethrough he weened that there had been no good women, and so he despised them in his books. Nabby was in her way and place a person worth making concessions to, for she was a workwoman not to be despised. Magua shook his head, forbidding the repetition of offers he so much despised. As to what had taken place in the morning, he knew Clare's forgivingness, and despised him for it. The brandade, which is a cod-fish stew and a regular fisherman's dish, is by no means to be despised. He despised all garishness and affectation, and was usually full of his theme. He was leashed to a vile white dog, loathsomely fat, fiendishly ill-natured, gloatingly intractable toward his despised conductor. At the bottom of her heart she despised the other people, who carped and were loud over trifles. He was laughed at by one half of the Neighbours, and despised and gulled by the other. Cloris and Amyntas are now safe enough, and Carinus has the despised but faithful Amarillis to console him. These people, the plebs as they were called, were despised by many patricians. For all these reasons they despised the Corinthians, and made no secret of their contempt. Yet Macaulay Carvel was not to be despised on account of his high-class mediocrity. For seeing the cunningness of the new people, they partly feared and partly despised them. Show More Sentences Bow-traps are especially favoured, but the springe for birds and the pitfalls for large animals are not despised. He was weak and ill-formed at his birth, so that even his mother despised him. 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. If such a man can not be loved, he can not be abhorred or despised. She felt that he despised them as amateurish, and secretly resented it. But Baber was ashamed of his descent, and despised the Mongol character. The sound of the trumpet wakes Judah no longer, and her despised children are now but the unresisting victims of hostile and military oppression. These despised themselves, as being the dupes of a wily fraud, a guileful snake in the grass. Whereupon the two aristocrats despised the bourgeois Regnier. After the role of deliverer, that of martyr was not to be despised. Harriot Freke, even whilst she diverted me most, I half despised. Dolby did very well indeed, and begs that he may not be despised. Men of letters admired the euphuistic phrases and despised their author. The reason for his savageness was that he despised the men with whom he played. They despised wealth just as other nations despise effeminacy and foppery. For I heartily despised all that fustian trumpery of the age. To show his indifference he struck up a violent friendship with a boy called Sharp whom he hated and despised. The true nobility laughed at him, the talented repelled him, and the honorable instinctively despised him. Could not the men whom they despised as milksops beat them, even on their own ground? He knew the despised Gomangani as the slowest, the most stupid, and the most defenseless of creatures. Show More Sentences When she saw that she could get no redress and that her words were despised, the Owl attacked the chatterer by a stratagem. It's easy to find out the names of the most despised and toughest neighbourhoods or villages, and have the boys hail from them. Talking about the Leven Crowers, they were not to be despised. She utterly despised weaklings and had no pity for lovesick maidens. These powerful omniscient circles who despised everyone and showed everyone up had long inspired in him a peculiar but quite vague alarm. She despised his uncritical, unironical nature, it had nothing for her. Oliver Cromwell, though he despised the stage, could condescend to laugh at, and with, men of less dignity than actors. It lingered on, unsustained by the country and despised by its enslavers. Don't you think men overrate the necessity for humoring everybody's nonsense, till they get despised by the very fools they humor? Even this day's pageant had not proceeded without the consent of the despised Jew, who furnished the means. Prejudices are pandered to in public, which in private are despised. But he had seen some renegade priests and had despised them. But for some unknown reason he despised me beyond all measure, and looked down upon me insufferably. But if she rushed into the fray herself she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored. Topsy was at first despised and contemned by the upper servants. I should have remembered that you despised poetic natures, and should have given you coral, or turquoise, or some other opaque unresponsive stone. It seemed to me that he despised him for being so simple and docile. She picked very fast and very clean, and with an air of scorn, as if she despised both the work and the disgrace and humiliation of the circumstances in which she was placed. The material distinctions of rank and wealth he increasingly despised. Find more words! 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