despise
verb (used with object)
to regard with contempt, distaste, disgust, or disdain; scorn; loathe.
had despised
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past perfectof despise.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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
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
Never mind a court ruling that the period to challenge the will had expired; they claimed that it remained "fake, flawed, and fraudulent", and that their brother had "despised" the executors while he was alive.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2012
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
