Example sentences for: despised

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

  • In the 1970s, many rockers despised disco.

  • Consider Jones' pièce de résistance : On "one particular evening," in response to "his inner demons," and more specifically to the Rockefeller Foundation's rejection of a grant application, Kinsey allegedly hanged himself by the hand and balls from an overhead pipe "long enough for this self-appointed Messiah of the sexually despised to experience much pain and suffering, precisely as he had intended."

  • Or what if Jewel was one angry bitch with a bad hair day and a gun to use on any guy she despised?

  • But most of all, they despised the way he eroded the nobles’ power and smoothed the path to an increasingly absolutist monarchy.

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


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