despiser
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7.0
- noun
- /dɪˈspaɪzər/
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despreciador
- He is a despiser of injustice, always speaking out against unfair treatment.
- a cultured despiser
Even in your folly and contempt, you despisers of the body, you serve yourself.
- Even in your folly and contempt, you despisers of the body, you serve yourself.
Examples
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Just because people who care about moving this country beyond hate and plausibly deniable racial/religious bigotry have proved we outnumber the haters and the despisers.
Blog text (13) -
I'm officially a despiser of "paleomg haterzzzzz" (if they can make up words, so can I).
Blog text (22) -
Despiser of all things great.
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Even in your folly and contempt, you despisers of the body, you serve yourself.
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A Reply to Religion's Cultured Despisers was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2009.
Academic text (2011) -
It is no longer fashionable to be a cultured despiser of religion here.
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Despisers of life are they, decaying and poisoned themselves, of whom the earth is weary: so let them go! "
Blog text (18) -
The misologists won in the academic world, as did the realists, the modernists, the post-modernists, and the despisers of fantasy.
Fiction book (2001) -
"False accusers, in contempt, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, high-minded lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God."
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If the end is already known, if we communicate, however subtly, that becoming more sensitive, or a more virtuous citizen, or a despiser of bourgeois vulgarity, or even an autonomous moral being is the goal of education, then that education degenerates into edification.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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5.2
A person who often says bad things about people or things they dislike
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7.1
A person who says bad things about someone or something to make them seem less good
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9.9
A person who dislikes most people and avoids them
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8.2
A person who mocks others to show dislike
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8.6
A person who hates someone or something
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3.4
A person who says that people or things are bad
A person who says bad things about people or things to make them seem unimportant
A person who strongly criticizes someone or something
A person who hates someone or something very much
A person who does not like someone or something
How Contemptuous
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Morphology
Etymology
The word despiser comes from Latin parts de- ('down') and spicere ('to look'). So a despiser is someone who 'looks down' on people or things, the opposite of respect, which uses the same 'look' root and means to value or admire someone.