Definition of Despise

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Definition of Despise
	Despise To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of. Related Definitions: Contemn, Contempt, Contemptuous, Disdain, Disfavor, Dislike, Down, Have, Look, Low, Of, Opinion, Or, Scorn, To, Upon, With

Despise Quotations

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Kahlil Gibran

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Lao Tzu

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
Abraham Maslow

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Marcus Aurelius

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Blaise Pascal

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
Mary Wollstonecraft

What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
Michelangelo

Despise Translations

despise in Danish is foragte
despise in Dutch is minachten, verachten
despise in German is verachten, verachten, verachte
despise in Italian is disprezzare
despise in Latin is sperno sprevi spretum, conculco, despicio
despise in Spanish is desde ar, despreciar

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