despiser

American  

[di-spahyz-er] / dɪˈspaɪz ər /

noun

1. a person who despises someone or something.

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Other Word Forms

• despisers noun

Example Sentences

But his son Antoninus was also a man who had excellent qualities that made him greatly admired in the view of the people and pleasing to the soldiers, for he was a military man, well able to bear up under any kind of hardship, a despiser of all delicate foods and every other kind of soft living, and this made him loved by the armies.

From Literature

Replying in the reformist newspaper, the Examiner, he roundly declared that the Regent was actually “a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity.”

From Washington Post

I realized before my oldest son was even a year old that I, a bug despiser, was raising an insect lover.

From Washington Post

Mr. Crosby, a legendary folk singer and protester in the 1960s, is a self-described despiser of President Trump.

From Washington Times

A very holy man, a despiser of the world, and an inexorable chastiser of the flesh.

From Project Gutenberg