despise
dis pahyz
- v look down on with disdain
He despises the people he has to work for
- For once, the actress seems outside her character, cuing the audience to pity Stella here, despise her there.
- Channel V's Asha Gill senses the frustration: "A lot of Asians despise us because we get all the jobs, but if I've bothered to learn several languages and understand several .
- Even the most hardline Islamic clerics, who despise the United States, have been shocked into silence by the attacks.