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What does despise mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word despise? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To regard with contempt or scorn.
  2. To disregard or ignore.
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I love New York for the very qualities of bigness, boldness, and brashness that some seem to despise.
People who despise nutritional diets and only eat junk food are digging their graves with their teeth.
So prevalent are the warbloggers that they now have awards, just like the weak-kneed Hollywood liberals most of them despise.
The reader is meant to despise him as weak and unmanly and, thanks to Rand's powers as a novelist, we have no trouble seeing him in this way.
Authorities despise him, people misunderstand him and villains continuously plot to get rid of him.
They despise each other, but of course must keep up appearances in front of the sensitive young mistress.

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