despise Betydning & definition

Eksempler på despise

• The punk audience's fantasies created a figurehead for a movement that he despised and wanted to leave behind and disrupt.

• Either they despised it, or could not afford it, or could get entrance to the schools without it.

• One did not have to be on the left to despise the appalling repressiveness of the late tsarist regime.

• The intelligentsia in particular despised the merchants for being too conservative and immoral.

• It was this kind of packaging that rock fans and musicians came to despise.

• Both instinct and passion undermined the social convention, the life of the salon, which he despised.

• Coal miners have in this sense become at once morally marginal and symbolically central, both despised and held in awe.

• Most sheep owners despised their shepherds for the annual binge, and many blamed unscrupulous hotel owners who preyed on the drunken men.