A feeling of scornful hatred

Usage examples of despisal.

And who, for the dishonor and the shame, would ever give thee, Belphegor the Slothful, a moment’s welcome, if Hypocrisy did not disguise thy foulness under the name of an internal disease, or as a good intent or a seeming despisal of wealth or the like.

He poured over them the weight of his long-repressed loathing and despisal, striking them over the heads with his stick and finally driving them and all their race for ever from this planet.

The Yrmido regarded Gorgidas with the suspicion years of outsiders' despisal had ingained in his people.

The Yrmido regarded Gor­gidas with the suspicion years of outsiders' despisal had ingained in his people.

The members of the Ring are not interested in this one, and watch the bidding with the amused despisal that is the mark of their profession when amateurs are vying for anything they themselves do not want.

For those long months I faced my father and my helpless mother by the moment and saw their heartbreak not to mention despisal from my younger sisters--and then I had a still-born boy on the loveliest day of a beautiful spring.

But in those moments of blackness you stood there, as though you yourself were made of stone like the stunted, buried buildings around you, and for all your educated cynicism, for all your late-twentieth-century materialist Western maleness and your fierce despisal of all things superstitious, you felt a touch of true and absolute terror, a consummately feral dread of the dark.

So far did he carry his black despisal, I feared it was wrong-headed as his former optimism.