despised
past simple and past participle ofdespise
| 单词 | despised |
| 释义 | despised past simple and past participle ofdespise despise verb[Tnot continuous] uk/dɪˈspaɪz/us/dɪˈspaɪz/tofeelastrongdislikefor someone or something because youthinkthat thatpersonor thing isbador has novalue: The twogroupsdespise each other. She despised himforthe way hetreatedhersister. He despised himselfforbeingsuch acoward. Synonyms disdainformal scorn to hate someone or something
Not liking
Examplesofdespiseddespised In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The punk audience's fantasies created a figurehead for a movement that hedespisedand wanted to leave behind and disrupt. From theCambridge English Corpus Then, the family could acquire land to be worked by tenants and even leave thedespisedtrading business. From theCambridge English Corpus Collective action (or itsdespisedapotheosis, socialism) would only muck up capitalism's great test of personal virtue. From theCambridge English Corpus Either theydespisedit, or could not afford it, or could get entrance to the schools without it. From theCambridge English Corpus The intelligentsia in particulardespisedthe merchants for being too conservative and immoral. From theCambridge English Corpus Despisedat home and ostracised internationally, he needed a success story to soften criticism of his regime. From theCambridge English Corpus Both instinct and passion undermined the social convention, the life of the salon, which hedespised. From theCambridge English Corpus Coal miners have in this sense become at once morally marginal and symbolically central, bothdespisedand held in awe. From theCambridge English Corpus And why, when the clergyman (often justifiably) thought of himself as working unstintingly in his parishioners' interests, was he so often heartilydespisedby them? From theCambridge English Corpus For this reason theatre often constituted a separate micro-society, discriminated anddespised. From theCambridge English Corpus But she does not see the child merely as the bearer of a feared ordespisedtrait. From theCambridge English Corpus For most part, his attempt to rationalize public administration came down to the effective implementation of two widelydespisedpolicies : new taxes and conscription. From theCambridge English Corpus One is to reconsider a cultural form dismissed, evendespisedby critics. From theCambridge English Corpus What is undesirable or evendespisedin the self cannot simply be discarded. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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