英语词汇“despise”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	despise
释义	de·spise \də̇ˈspīz, dēˈ-\ transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English despisen, from Old French despis-, stem of despire, from Latin despicere, from de- + spicere, specere to look — more at spy 1. a. : to look down on : think of (a person) as objectionable, reprehensible, discreditable, disgraceful : hold oneself above : regard as an inferior < that the young are in full revolt against them, and that the child born now may grow up to despise them — Times Literary Supplement > b. : to feel disrespect or aversion toward or disgust of : disdain, detest < despised the poor whites as creatures distinctly inferior to Negroes — H.L.Mencken > 2. a. : to regard (something) as negligible, worthless, distasteful, a nuisance, a disgrace < health comes first and good looks are not to be despised — J.M.Barzun > < submariners have always despised the need to evade in order to survive — S.D.Cutter > < they despise all forms of organized religion, yet luxuriate in theology historically considered — New York Herald Tribune Book Review > : think of or look on with shame, repugnance, disgust : loathe < that the spirit of Charity which neither despises nor fears the nations of another creed and color — J.L.Cranmer-Byng > b. : to ignore or scorn as not worth taking steps to avoid or counter : spurn < he was in a state to despise consequences — Arnold Bennett > 3. now dialect : dislike, scorn < despise to vote for a party controlled from the outside — R.B.Vance > Synonyms: contemn, scorn, disdain, scout: despise, implying any emotional reaction from strong disfavor to loathing, stresses the judging of a thing as mean, petty, worthless, or repulsive, and a consequent, often derisive, looking down upon it < when the inferior creature appreciates us, we cease to despise her — George Meredith > < an enemy… he loathed and hated, never despised — Laura Krey > < to despise certain foods > contemn suggests a somewhat harsher though more intellectual judgment and condemnation than despise < his own early drawings of moss roses and picturesque castles — things that he now mercilessly contemned — Arnold Bennett > < the human need of entertainment as a counterbalance in modern life is contemned by the serious novelists as “escapism” — A.C.Ward > scorn implies quick, indignant or profound contempt, especially vocal or visible < they scorn decorative chrome on the body, and remove it ruthlessly to reduce the car to its cleanest lines — Lamp > < the Welshmen so scorned the Saxons that they refused to extend to them the blessings of Christianity in the third century — O.S.J.Gogarty > disdain suggests a supercilious and visible contempt for or aversion to something regarded as unworthy < the psychiatric patient is disdained and ridiculed by his fellow inmates — R.S.Banay > < despised by those superior persons who disdain her as old-fashioned — M.R.Cohen > scout stresses the rejection or dismissal with ridicule of anything (as a person or idea) one considers unworthy of consideration < his Majesty will be most provoked if his ideas are scouted — C.S.Forester > < we scorned presentiments and scouted occult influences — F.W.Crofts >
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