verb
definition
To regard with contempt or scorn.
definition
To disregard or ignore.
adjective
definition
Hated; viewed with scorn.
example
The dictator's cruelty made him the most despised person in the region.
Examples of despised in a Sentence
His own people despised him for his wickedness.
He despised them because of his old age and experience of life.
She hated her husband who in turn despised her.
Charles heartily despised him, and yet appears to have retained affection for him.
As for faience and pottery, howeverr the Chinese despised them in all forms, with one notable exception, the yi-hsing-yao, known in the Occident as boccaro.
The tradition is that the daughters of Minyas, king of Orchomenus, having despised the rites of the god, were seized with frenzy and ate the flesh of one of their children.
By the conquest of Whydah the Dahomeyans were brought in contact with a people of serpent worshippers, and ended by adopting from them the cult which they at first despised.
He despised all trickery and selfish greed.
They were hated by the Hindus as barbarians who disregarded the caste system and despised the holy law, and for centuries an intermittent struggle continued between the satraps and the Andhras, with varying fortune.
His ambition was boundless and no means, however perfidious, were despised by him.
In youth, although famed for his wonderful strength of grip, he was generally despised as sluggish and unwarlike.
Like Machiavelli, but on a lower level, Guicciardini was willing to "roll stones," or to do any dirty work for masters whom, in the depth of his soul, he detested and despised.
Moreover, in proportion as the clergy, no longer mere ringleaders of a despised and persecuted sect, became beneficiaries and administrators of rich endowments - and this at a time when the external safeguards against embezzlement were comparatively weak - a strong feeling grew up among the laity that church revenues should not go to support the priest's family.
Bream are usually despised for the table in England, but fish from large lakes, if well prepared, are by no means deserving of ostracism.
He is on the whole for the nobles and against the commons; and, though the unfavourable colours in which he paints the leaders of the latter are possibly reflected from the authorities he followed, it is evident that he despised and disliked the multitude.
And that element has been neither forgotten nor despised.
The body is therefore to be honoured, not despised.
Among the drawbacks of this temper, which on the whole made for progress, was the rise of a school of excessive scepticism, which, forgetting the value of the accumulated stores of empiricism, despised those degrees of moral certainty that, in so complex a study and so tentative a practice as medicine, must be our portion for the present, and even for a long future, however great the triumphs of medicine may become.
Tacitus describes him as brave in action, ready of speech, clever at bringing others into odium, powerful in times of civil war and rebellion, greedy, extravagant, in peace a bad citizen, in war an ally not to be despised.
At one end of the scale were certain outlying tribes and certain hereditary crafts of a dirty or despised kind.
How such a mean and abject character submitted to remain five years in prison rather than change his principles is not very clearly explained; and as to his being despised, we have seen already that neither Henry nor Mary considered him by any means despicable.
As to individuals within the nation, the despised publicans and sinners will find God's favour before the self-satisfied representatives of the national religion.
It should be mentioned that there is another, entirely independent, nomad race, .the despised Nowar, who correspond to the gipsies or tinkers of European countries.
They were fighting, in fact, against the despised and hated Arabs, in defence of their holiest possessions, their nationality and their faith.
They despised tradition and Old World ways and notions; and they accepted the Jeffersonian dogmas, not only as maxims, but as social forces - the causes of the material prosperity of the country.
Buddhism, which swayed Korea from the 10th to the 14th century, has been discredited for three centuries, and its priests are ignorant, immoral and despised.
He fastened especially upon Vergniaud's letter to the king and his support of the appeal to the people as a proof that he was a moderate in its then despised sense.
His insatiable researches into natural fact brought upon him among the vulgar some suspicion of practising those magic arts which of all things he scouted and despised.
By a strange but not infrequent irony of fate the most imperious and despotic spirit of his day laboured to enthrone a power which, had he himself been in authority, he would have utterly detested and despised.
Bunyan's own account of his family as the "meanest and most despised of all the families of the land" must be put down to his habitual self-depreciation.
It is said to have been broad moonlight on the full moon of the month of July, when the young chief, with Channa as his sole companion, leaving his father's home, his wealth and social position, his wife and child behind him, went out into the wilderness to become a penniless and despised student, and a homeless wanderer.
And though this is of course by far the more valuable aspect in which any such contribution to science can be looked at, the other must not be despised.
He despised the weakness and the folly of the émigrés and excluded them from his councils.
The northern standpoint appears when Rachel, mother of Joseph and Benjamin, is the favoured wife in contrast to the despised Leah, mother of Judah and Simeon; when Joseph is supreme among his brethren; and when Judah is included among the "sons" of Israel.
As Dean served them, it was apparent any early attempts at public pleasantness were gone, replaced by growls and stares that announced how thoroughly they despised one another.
The shows, therefore, and the toys were all very primitive, and would be utterly despised by the young folk now.
He never played, but he loved a good gamester and despised all dupes.
In England Rufus began to display uncontrolled tyranny along with his chief justiciar, the despised Ranulf Flambard.
Having presided over massive layoffs, he is now the most despised.
Like Peel she was a provincial, but quite unlike him she despised consensus politics.
They were both apocalyptic sects, which despised Roman occupation.
France is paralyzed by its own elite, leaving a despised, excluded, largely immigrant underclass of the poor and disenfranchised.
He suffers, is despised, rejected, chastened and afflicted that others may be blessed and be at peace through his chastisement.
Wallace (Ibis, 1864, pp. 36-41), who successfully showed that they are not altogether to be despised.
It is written in a mystical and pretentious style, but the philosophy of it, if allowance be made for the allegorical method of the time, is by no means to be despised.
Once unnatural vise was despised, now it is the only practice that cannot be criticized in the films or in polite society.
He also went on to say that he despised the things that she said about him and their failed marriage publicly because he does not believe she is telling the truth.
The song cracked the Top 40 charts, which is an almost unheard of achievement for a so-called "college rock" band (a label understandably despised by the band).
They are despised disposable people, who are stuck all the dangerous jobs.
So she always tried, with little success, to suppress the despised Klingon side of her nature.