scorn

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to hate someone or something
hateI hate camping.
detestI detest any kind of cruelty.
loathe"Do you like cabbage?" "No, I loathe it."
despiseShe despised him for the way he treated her.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not liking
abhor
abide
abominate
anti-American
anti-British
civil
cup
cut
deplore
detest
disdain
disdainful
disdainfully
go off
non-fan
not be someone's cup of teaidiom
not go much on somethingidiom
not have a civil word to say about someoneidiom
not know what someone sees in someone/somethingidiom
tire

despise | American Dictionary

despise
verb[ T ]
us/dɪˈspɑɪz/
to feel a strong dislike for someone or something that you think is bad or worthless:
He adored his daughter, but despised his son.

Examples of despise

despise
The punk audience's fantasies created a figurehead for a movement that he despised and wanted to leave behind and disrupt.
Either they despised it, or could not afford it, or could get entrance to the schools without it.
One did not have to be on the left to despise the appalling repressiveness of the late tsarist regime.
The intelligentsia in particular despised the merchants for being too conservative and immoral.
It was this kind of packaging that rock fans and musicians came to despise.
Both instinct and passion undermined the social convention, the life of the salon, which he despised.
Coal miners have in this sense become at once morally marginal and symbolically central, both despised and held in awe.
For this reason theatre often constituted a separate micro-society, discriminated and despised.
To despise the past is also to despise the present.
One is to reconsider a cultural form dismissed, even despised by critics.
What is undesirable or even despised in the self cannot simply be discarded.
They despise us and do not think we can create our own employment and deliver our services or at least work with them.
Yet his inaction leads readers to ridicule and even despise him for his failure to control his wife.
They do not think that their readers, taking seriously their admission of inadequacy, will despise their work.
Consider the soldier who likes to energize himself by imagining the enemy he is firing at to be a superior officer he particularly despises.
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.