Example sentences for: despised

How can you use “despised” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The idea that a writer who despised Ronald Reagan would have been made editor of a leading conservative magazine is unimaginable.

  • In La Repubblica of Rome Monday, one of its correspondents in Belgrade reported that Politika , the most widely read newspaper of the Yugoslav capital, has maintained its circulation during the war despite being despised as a Milosevic mouthpiece.

  • The war against the Chechens, who are despised as Muslim terrorists in slavic Russia, is wildly popular, proof that Russian military power is returning.

  • A colleague likens Remnick's avoidance of limousine service to President Carter's despised modesty.

  • Friedrich Wilhelm I (1713–1740) despised the baroque glitter of his parents’ court, and subjected the previously easy-going Berliners to a frugal, rigid concept of Preussentum (Prussianness), that is, unquestioning obedience to the ruler and his administrators, and sharply defined class distinctions, affirming the supremacy of the aristocracy and officer class and that of soldiers over civilians in general.


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