They seemed to despise fish-hooks, and it was plain that they had even obtained muskets from the whalers, for there were six in the chiefs house, and one was fired, not maliciously but out of display.
And again, he did not despise anyone, nor reject anyone with scorn; whether it were a white or a black person he thought them all as one, and he loved them all alike.
Neither did I so despise them that they should be quite consumed: and I should make void my covenant with them.
Give me constancy in my mind, that I may despise him: and fortitude that I may overthrow him.
If you despise my laws, and contemn my judgments so as not to do those things which are appointed by me, and to make void my covenant: 26:16.
And when they have eaten, and are full and fat, they will turn away after strange gods, and will serve them: and will despise me, and make void my covenant.
For this deed of the queen will go abroad to all women, so that they will despise their husbands, and will say: King Assuerus commanded that queen Vasthi should come in to him, and she would not.
They shall be cursed that shall despise thee: and they shall be condemned that shall blaspheme thee: and blessed shall they be that shall build thee up, 13:17.
But now saith the Lord: Far be this from me: but whosoever shall glorify me, him will I glorify: but they that despise me, shall be despised.
And his officers said to him: Who can despise the people of the Hebrews, who have such beautiful women, that we should not think it worth our while for their sakes to fight against them?
Despise not thy portion, which thou hast redeemed for thyself out of Egypt.
If she displease the eyes of her master to whom she was delivered, he shall let her go: but he shall have no power to sell her to a foreign nation, if he despise her.
I am no gourmand: I require no dainties: I should despise the board of Heliogabalus, except for its long sitting.
This partiality is tyranny, when parents despise those that are deformed; enough to break those whom God had bowed before.
I don't despise Old England, but Sicily's the land for me, and I'm going back to Montalesso some day.
He has been taught to despise ordinary human beings, for they do not want to be wicked or silly, except in the normal humdrum way, and they have not seen his play and are not members of his play-producing society.
First of all they consider themselves superior to the rebels, and despise them.
If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; 31:14 What then shall I do when God riseth up?
My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: 3:12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?
LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name.
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he willdespise the wisdom of thy words.
I pray you despise him not, for though he is a landless mercenary, he is brave, and has powerful friends.
As for this new-fangled Norman joust, as they call it, why I despise it.
I will not have ye despise the fierce spirit of your race that lives in ye!
Yes, my lady, I cannot help thinking that these Saxons would despise the beastly orgies proceeding under this roof, and outside.
Yet popular sentiment in public utterance affects to despise money, and inclines to abuse those who possess it.
You think ill of them because youdespise their sect," she said gently, "but I am the wife of one of the elders.
You despise the astrologers, yet you utter a jargon as mysterious as theirs.
Long accustomed to ridicule and almost to despise the pretensions of Pisani as a composer, they now felt as if they had been unduly cheated into the applause with which they had hailed the overture and the commencing scenas.
If men call me a miser, it was but that none might despise thee, my heir, because Nature has stunted and deformed thee, when I was no more.
I am liberal, Paul, and love liberty; but, thank Heaven, I despise your democracies!
I will tell you at one time or another what effect that weakness you despise already once had, long after your age, upon me.
Lucy, believe me that no man can mix largely with men in political life, and not despise everything that in youth he adored!
How I despise that dog; but how I could hate, crush, mangle him, could I believe that he despised me!
No; the privilege of my past existence would revive; I should revel in a luxury of contempt, I should despise you, I should mock you, and I should be once more what I was before I knew you.
So pleasant a thing to me is scorn, that I would rather despise myself than have no one to despise!
Say, will the maiden we love despise Gallants at least to each other true?
Then they overran the lawns, and we began to despise them.
Forget for the moment that you despise mosquitoes, and let us study their ways.
You despise him utterly; you do not recognize him for a friend, or even as an honest man.
The following runs: "Let no man despise him," etc.
Singularly, the men who most despise women are the ones who seek to have her applause.
They prove that it has a right to demand the serious attention of all who call themselves Christians, and that those who despise the subject are only exposing their own ignorance of Scripture.
Happy is the man whom God correcteth; therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.
They often make men think, who despise the active side of the Christian character.
What must be thought of you if you despise the only sure receipt for the everlasting health of your soul?
Whenever a man begins to take up new views of religion, and pretends to despise old Bible Christianity, thrust home at his conscience the old woman's question.
Beware that you do not despise the gate and perish in unbelief.
I might show you the death-beds of men who have affected to despise the Bible.
I am not made of the stuff for a reformer: I am a bit of a snob, though, like other snobs, I despise both parties to the bargain.
Our modern revivalists profess to despise the flimsiness of the first attempts in this direction.
He now hated and feared the naval officer, and he would have given much to have been able to despise him.
It was almost as if he himself had come to despise the old novel, because the publishers despised it--as if that were any reason.
Third, I despise a person who's scared out of his wits by fear of what the neighbors'll think.
And Norah looked out of the window, as she had so joyfully anticipated doing in her happiness and levity, but not to despise the people who walked.
And then after the pictures, let us have another splendid drive in the carriage, and despise all the people who are walking!
After this incursion and exploit, which was of great advantage to the Volscians, since they learned by it to be more courageous and to despise their enemy, Marcius drew them off, and returned in safety.
The mutilation of the images of Mercury, most of which, in one night, had their faces all disfigured, terrified many persons who were wont to despise most things of that nature.
A race, too, formerly enslaved, is now at the mercy of men who hate anddespise it, and those who set it free are bound to give it a fair chance for new life.
I despise your offers; and set my virtue at a much higher rate than all the advantages you, or the whole world, would give in exchange.
I despise the low, the grovelling mind; light and darkness are not more opposites than we are, and can as easily agree.
Some of them have been very cruel to her and to me, and, besides, I despise and fear the men who come to our table.
She knows the town's folk despise your memory, but that she lays to prejudice.
Yes, it is a fearful pain to be forced to despise the friend that you trusted--to be betrayed by those we have loved.
I would despise the man I loved most fondly if he were guilty of such an act of shame.
I despise him; I know nothing of him; I am even willing that he should know I adore you.
I will not forget that to me your treachery has been of great use, and therefore I will not desert you, though I shall despise the traitor.
You have the right to kill me, but not to despise me--to dishonor me.
I loved mankind very dearly, marquis; perhaps that is the reason I now despise them so intensely; because I know they are not worthy of my love!
I despise this monotonous, colorless existence, without end or aim.
Now, I shall pay your debts, but I shall despise you.
You are weary of me, and since the prince loves you, you despise the poor humble heart which laid itself at your feet.
I can no longer admire him as a poet, because I despise him so utterly as a man.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "despise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
