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
deplore
despise
detest
disdain
disdainful
go off
misanthropically
non-fan
not be someone's cup of teaidiom
not go much on somethingidiom
not have a civil word to say about someoneidiom
shy
tire

Examples of despised

despised

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The punk audience's fantasies created a figurehead for a movement that he despised and wanted to leave behind and disrupt.
Then, the family could acquire land to be worked by tenants and even leave the despised trading business.
Collective action (or its despised apotheosis, socialism) would only muck up capitalism's great test of personal virtue.
Either they despised it, or could not afford it, or could get entrance to the schools without it.
The intelligentsia in particular despised the merchants for being too conservative and immoral.
Despised at home and ostracised internationally, he needed a success story to soften criticism of his regime.
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.
And why, when the clergyman (often justifiably) thought of himself as working unstintingly in his parishioners' interests, was he so often heartily despised by them?
For this reason theatre often constituted a separate micro-society, discriminated and despised.
But she does not see the child merely as the bearer of a feared or despised trait.
For most part, his attempt to rationalize public administration came down to the effective implementation of two widely despised policies : new taxes and conscription.
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.
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