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Example sentences for "despising"

Lexicographically close words:
despiser; despisers; despises; despisest; despiseth; despite; despiteful; despitefully; despoil; despoiled
  1. All the time she suspected Miss Elton and Mrs. Lenox of despising her, because she had so much less than they.

  2. It was balm to her spirit to think that this man, who admired her, was himself admired by the people whom she suspected of despising her; and that they did admire him was evident.

  3. As I, or ever constant from the first, Despising youth's allurements and rejecting As spider-films the shackles I endure?

  4. He endured the cross, despising the shame.

  5. Christ, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame!

  6. And yet it is written "who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God" (Heb.

  7. He let them tell their stories, though his own taste was quite different; and he even humoured them so as to laugh the while he was despising them.

  8. Only I must set forth how I came to disgrace myself so deeply that I could not hope for years and years to enjoy the luxury of despising so much as a lighterman again.

  9. The dropping away of the transient things is no argument for neglecting or despising them; for our handling of them makes our characters, and our characters abide.

  10. You are ignoring and despising the high meaning of your manhood.

  11. I beg my readers to assist me in despising them.

  12. Far from despising your project, the queen has adopted it from this time.

  13. Save us from calling ourselves by a name that Thou alone canst wear, and from despising the image of Thyself Thou hast formed us to bear, and grant that knowledge of Thee revealed in Jesus Christ which is our eternal life.

  14. I had supposed him to be despising his fellow-creatures in general, but did not suspect him of descending to such malicious revenge, such injustice, such inhumanity as this.

  15. Instead of despising earlier times because they had not printing and railways and telegraphs, let us rather say that printing and railways and telegraphs were needed to raise large states to the level of small ones.

  16. But the dog Balthasar lay watching her lips too, and despising in his heart the interruptions of their talk, and the tilting of those greenish glasses full of a golden fluid which was distasteful to him.

  17. He was despising the vehemence of his own feelings after all these years.

  18. She found him before a mirror, tying a black bow with an air of despising its ends.

  19. Reading condemnatory resentment in her little kinswoman's blue eyes-she was glad that she had fooled her, despising June because that elderly idealist had not seen what she was after.

  20. Richelieu, however, pursued his way in serene self-confidence, despising the ignorance and jealousy of the vulgar herd, and periodically bringing forth the offspring of his genius in the shape of plays and poems.

  21. What a sad figure it made in the presence of its contemporary, The Independent—a shameless, arrogant journal which boasted of despising all religious belief, and scoffed at the honest people foolish enough to read it!

  22. Savonarola despised these aids, and thundered in his rough, uncultivated way, against scandals and want of faith, speaking with scorn of the modern poets and philosophers, and despising their fanaticism for the classics.

  23. He accused them of fawning on the rich and despising the poor.

  24. For the last few years he had given way to the habit of despising his own common sense; and instead of using his own judgment he now used the Lot.

  25. How can you sit there--how have you suffered me these two years--without despising me?

  26. She could not care in this moment that the man she was despising as he leaned there in his loathsome beauty--she could not care that he was her husband; she could only feel that she despised him.

  27. Instead of despising Irish law, every nobleman was now anxious to have his Brehon, his Bard, and his Senachie.

  28. Then in their insatiable love feasts, in the time and place of their church meetings, the rich which could together feed to fulness, despising and contemning the poor, that had not to lay it on as they had, chap.

  29. Besides, she was far from despising or jeering at anything others held sacred, and took it as a matter of course that her child should be educated in the religion of its father.

  30. Following that pitiful conception of labor as a curse, comes the very old and androcentric habit of despising it as belonging to women, and then to slaves.

  31. And so he went away deeply despondent, despising himself as an absolute dolt.

  32. For she saw there something that she had not; and being of a nature leaning to great-mindedness, though not of the first rank, she could not meanly mask her own deficiency by despising it.

  33. But he pitied her, for he had sufficient imagination to prevent him from despising what he did not altogether comprehend.

  34. We have always found you living according to the principles of progress, despising the impotent yelping of a religiously besotted mob.

  35. Such a man, on the contrary, condemns himself in despising philosophy to remain imperfect, not merely as a man, but also as a scientist.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "despising" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abjuration; contempt; contemptuous; contradiction; declination; declining; denial; disapproval; discard; disdain; disdainful; dismissal; disregard; exception; exclusion; rebuff; recantation; refusal; repudiation; repulse; scornful; scouting