despised
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4.5
- adjective
- /dɪˈspaɪzd/
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despreciado
- Many people felt that the despised leader made poor decisions during his time in office.
So theme one externals don't need to be despised.
- So theme one externals don't need to be despised.
- So that was an incorporation of people who had been despised.
- He fights for those on death row who are often young and black and forgotten and even despised.
- So we associate drugs that are not used widely in the society with a specific despised group.
- She was totally despised because she was the other woman in the marriage who had left Diana devastated.
- So because we're not the depending on where you were cops or, you know, despised.
Examples
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You know, if Britain is so despised by you, please leave.
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And today Paul Ryan's despised as much by the right as by the left because he tried to actually fix the problem.
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I believe that to have interfered as I have done on behalf of this despised poor.
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Now, I mean, Romney is routinely despised because he's so wealthy.
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The despised villain in the story was ultimately defeated by the hero.
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She was often mocked and despised by her peers for her unconventional ideas.
Synonyms
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7.4
Very bad and makes people feel angry or disgusted
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6.5
Very unpleasant and causing people to feel strong dislike or hate
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2.0
Very strongly disliked or avoided by many people
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5.8
Feeling hated and rejected by others
Strongly disliked or hated
Not popular with many people
Antonyms
How Contemptuous
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Despised comes from the Latin despicere, made of de- 'down' and spicere 'to look', so it first meant 'to look down on'. You can see the same 'look' root in familiar words like inspect and spectator, and that's why to despise someone is to feel strong dislike and think you are better than them.