Example sentences for: despised

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

  • Many people despised Barkely for his big mouth and poor manners.

  • From that day forward, his social options are severely limited--to the other outcasts, Greenberg and Goldstein, who are, like him, in a despised religious minority.

  • Charlotte was bad enough, but by suggesting that the HQ is now also in much despised L.A., where San Franciscans say the definition of Old Money is someone whose checks clear the bank the first time, was a very bitter pill.

  • One of the reasons journalists are so despised by other folks is their bent for comments like the one the WP 's James Glassman tosses off in his column today: "(Rep.

  • In this situation, Johnson's impeachment looms as the operative precedent: a case of men who despised and battled their president--perhaps with good reason--but whose zeal in pursuing flimsy impeachment charges turned the judgment of history against them.


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