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Princeton's WordNet

  1. despised, detested, hated, scornedadjective

    treated with contempt

Wiktionary

  1. despisedadjective

    Hated; viewed with scorn.

    The dictator's cruelty made him the most despised person in the region.

Wikipedia

  1. despised

    Seaweed was an American band from Tacoma, Washington who were active throughout the 1990s. Their style of music was a combination of various rock subgenres, including post-hardcore and punk rock. They were signed to various notable record labels, such as Sub Pop Records, Merge Records, and Hollywood Records.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Despised

    of Despise

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of despised in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of despised in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of despised in a Sentence

  1. George Sand:

    If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.

  2. The Republicans:

    To pull out a candidate on the second round is rather unfair. Today, they're twisting the arm of the French, of the left. Are they going to accept being insulted, despised? We'll see.

  3. Edmund Burke:

    Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.

  4. Jesse Louis Jackson:

    My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

  5. Christian Nevell Bovee:

    Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

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