had despised
- past perfect of despise.
Example Sentences
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Lisa had despised its hulking box shape and puke-brown cabinet doors, but she loved what the place represented.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 9, 2021
Then an insight hit: Until that moment, I had despised myself for not living the conventional life I had expected since childhood of a healthy, married woman with children.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 15, 2019
At his last high school reunion, a man, a former football player whom Alan had despised, said, Alan Clay, you've got a thousand-mile stare.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 26, 2013
His tragedy, which his careful revisions and rationalisations cannot conceal, is that he became what he had despised – as Hazlitt put it, "a living and ignominious satire upon himself".
From The Guardian ● Jan. 18, 2013
She came into her own with the women who had despised her, by being more moral than they; she avenged herself on Cholly by forcing him to indulge in the weaknesses she despised.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
