Word Frequency
Translations for 'despise'
- British English: despise
If you despise someone or something, you hate them very much.I despised myself for my cowardly behaviour.dɪˈspaɪz VERB - Arabic: يَحْتَقِرُ
- Brazilian Portuguese: desprezar
- Chinese: 鄙视
- Croatian: prezirati
- Czech: opovrhovat opovrhnout
- Danish: foragte
- Dutch: verafschuwen
- European Spanish: despreciar
- Finnish: halveksia
- French: mépriser
- German: verachten
- Greek: περιφρονώ
- Italian: disprezzare
- Japanese: 軽蔑する
- Korean: 경멸하다
- Norwegian: forakte
- Polish: wzgardzić gardzić
- Portuguese: desprezar
- Romanian: a disprețui
- Russian: презирать
- Spanish: despreciar
- Swedish: förakta
- Thai: เหยียดหยาม
- Turkish: hor görmek
- Ukrainian: зневажати зневажити
- Vietnamese: khinh thường
Example Sentences Including 'despise'
Carlton's Green -a man most in the industry despise -will be chairman.Sun, News of the World (2002)
Contrary to popular opinion, I don't despise men - some of my best friends are members of the opposite sex.Sun, News of the World (2001)
Don't get me wrong, I despise Marlette for what he did, but I despise you and your kind even more.The Devil's Door
I used to really despise girls who had to have little tokens of love all the time.SEX (2001)
Judging from events over the weekend, they need each other as much as they despise each other.Spiked (2003)
No doubt to be brought out by property speculators and developers, the very people Tom seems to despise.The Mercury, Sunday Tasmanian (2004)
Not a single gaze came his way as he climbed Castro, not even to despise him.SACRAMENT (2001)
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.GOD'S SECRETARIES: The Making of the King James Bible
We become in fact no better than those whose actions we despise.The Advertiser, Sunday Mail (2005)
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