despise
verb (used with object)
to regard with contempt, distaste, disgust, or disdain; scorn; loathe.
is despising
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present progressiveof despise (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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That old villain! you may see by his eye that he is despising them all the time.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie
The “Tracts for the Times” tell us “that the Bishop is Christ’s representative, and the priests the Bishop’s, so that despising the clergy is despising Christ.”
From The Religious Life of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
Not only is it making a fool of the boy, but it is despising the gifts of Providence, and teaching him to trample them under his feet.’
From The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
She is despising Lysken, at this moment, as a shallow, prosaic character, who cannot enter into the depth of her feelings, and has not attained the height of her experience.
From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Emily Sarah Holt
