What is "despises"

Usage examples of "despises".

This is the reason why the charming though feeble sex loves the brave and despises the cowardly.

Then she wishes me to understand that she despises also my tender affection for her, since she places me in a position to shew that affection for another person.

Lessons of wisdom and of morality which the Pope despises, but which the Gospel teaches and which the Saviour prescribes.

I think there is no one in the world who despises Melisande Shahrizai with the same purity of emotion as you.

At the bottom of his heart he despises foreigners, just as much as any illiterate businessman in Manchester.