0 to feel a strong dislike for someone or something because you think that that person or thing is bad or has no value: --
1 to feel a strong dislike for someone or something that you think is bad or worthless: --
Yet his inaction leads readers to ridicule and even despise him for his failure to control his wife.
They despise us and do not think we can create our own employment and deliver our services or at least work with them.
What is undesirable or even despised in the self cannot simply be discarded.
One is to reconsider a cultural form dismissed, even despised by critics.
To despise the past is also to despise the present.
For this reason theatre often constituted a separate micro-society, discriminated and despised.
In such countries manufactures tended to be despised, while the nobility bought luxury goods from abroad with no real sense of their value.
Most sheep owners despised their shepherds for the annual binge, and many blamed unscrupulous hotel owners who preyed on the drunken men.
