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Meanings of despise people in English

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Usage of despise people in English
1
Perhaps it was then he learned how to hate and to despise people.
Dr Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party
2
But these critics despise people who don't use unintelligible jargon.
The Irish Times
3
I know you despise people who talk like that, and I don't reproach you.
Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories
4
I despise people who turn a blind eye to the dangers of that kind of religion.
Underground
5
Personally, I despise people like you.
Evil and the Mask
6
I suppose this direction had reference to worldly good, but I despise money, and despise people who love it.
Stepping Heavenward
7
I despise people who just batten on the earnings of others, and never do a hand's turn for themselves.
Sisters
8
I'd never worked, and never intended to; I rather despised people who did.
The Ne'er-Do-Well
9
I do not like to have you say that you enjoy despising people, George.
Memories of Hawthorne
10
The Jews also made the same mistake of despising people of other races and nations.
Hebrew Life and Times
11
He despised people who were lavish with their praises.
The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. / The Man Of Property
12
Come, then, with me, Susanna- agoodlyname, it comes to you from the despised people.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend
13
She despised people she could walk on.
Nothing in her way
14
She had not time to consider that, and in any case she despised people who took offence easily.
The Secret City
15
'Perhaps he hates freedom as much as he despises people.'
Dr Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party
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There was nothing it could not do in the way of recasting and uplifting the despised peoples of the land.
The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 12, December, 1888
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