Which preposition to use with despised
Paul he despised as a man lacking finesse and esprita truly French form of contempt.
All fine clothes I despised in comparison with my interest, and never kept but just what clothes were comfortable for common days, and perhaps I would have a garment or two which I did not have on at all times, but as for superfluous finery I never thought it to be compared with a decent homespun dress, a good supply of money and prudence.
Finally, Pompey became afraid that he might be despised for his behavior and be deserted by his allies, hence he gave orders for the ships to weigh anchor; in these he reposed his chief trust.
Are you then, sir, despised of your Love? Asca.
Both of them are hard workers, both are doing good, and neither must be despised on account of humility of position.
"He will return the compliment and show us how to despise at wholesale, eh?
This dinner was so excellent, so well cooked and served, that, although we despise with a deep-rooted scorn the wretched class of individuals who make their dinner their main object in life, we nevertheless consider that we are only paying a merited tribute to the chef in saying that the cooking was always of a high standard, and quoting as a specimen the evening's menu (May 1): SOUP.
They were more despised than ever.
Lord TALBOT spoke to this effect:My lords, it is not without indignation that I hear a motion so injurious to my own honour, and to that of the noble lords who have concurred with me in the last debate, nor without contempt that I observed the motion confounded with the positions contained in it; the low subtilty of such conduct is no less to be despised than the malice to be abhorred.
I love this sort of poems, that open a new intercourse with the most despised of the animal and insect race.
She had faced the battery of curious eyes, as she walked with the husband she despised to the Sunday services; but what screen had she now that her pride was humbled?
ery edifying to all who are not in the secret, and who do not know that they are acting a part, and making a mock both of their own reason and their own probity, merely to please persons whose delusions they pity and despise from the bottom of their hearts.
or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not?
LOVE DESPISED IN JAPAN AND CHINA
Young as they were, they despised alike the pleasures and the flatteries of the world.
W.A. A better man than ever I shall be; he was, Sir, a clergyman, who gave me good instruction, or correction, which I despised like a brute as I was, and murdered my poor father.
She still lacked those top-sails whose action is not to be despised under this full-sail movement.