Crossword-Solution: DESPISES
We have 17 clues for the answer “DESPISES”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Won't go anywhere near | 1 answer |
| Won't countenance | 1 answer |
| Can't stand, in a sense | 1 answer |
| Looks down on with disdain | 1 answer |
| What a misanthrope does. | 2 answers |
| Feels contempt for | 2 answers |
| More than dislikes | 3 answers |
| Execrates | 4 answers |
| Is unable to stand | 4 answers |
| Looks down on. | 4 answers |
| Abhors | 4 answers |
| Loathes | 5 answers |
| Scorns. | 6 answers |
| Has no use for | 6 answers |
| Can't abide | 10 answers |
| Can't stomach | 10 answers |
| Can't stand | 16 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REEAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DESPISES (5)
But I soon give up that notion for two things: she’d be mad and disgusted at his rascality and ungratefulness for leaving her, and so she’d sell him straight down the river again; and if she didn’t, everybody naturally despises an ungrateful nigger, and they’d make Jim feel it all the time, and so he’d feel ornery and disgraced.
Why do you seek the society of someone who hates and despises you?” “My dear fellow, what the hell do you suppose I care what you think of me?” “Damn it all,” I said, more violently because I had an inkling my motive was none too creditable, “I don’t want to know you.” “Are you afraid I shall corrupt you?” His tone made me feel not a little ridiculous.
Whoever, therefore, trusts that by works he merits grace, despises the merit and grace of Christ, and seeks a way to God without Christ, by human strength, although Christ has said of Himself: I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
And you let him--you let yourself be cut in bits’--she mixed her metaphors a little--‘be cut in bits, and used or discarded, while all the while every drop of blood in you belonged to him! But he’s Shylock--and you have bled to death of the pound of flesh he has cut out of you.’ But she despises me the most, you know--far the most--” Mrs.
France possesses to-day several philologists of the first rank, endowed with rare talents and deep philosophic insight,--modest savants developing a science almost without the knowledge of the public; devoting themselves to studies which are scornfully looked down upon, and seeming to shun applause as much as others seek it." All that he does from instinct man despises; or, if he admires it, it is as Nature's work, not as his own.
Quotes with DESPISES (3)
Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave and eats a bread it does not harvest. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream, yet submits in its awakening. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its n…
Obedient to no man, dependent only on weather and season, without a goal before them or a roof above them, owning nothing, open to every whim of fate, the homeless wanderers lead their childlike, brave, shabby existence. They are the sons of Adam, who was driven out of Paradise; the brothers of the animals, of innocence. Out of heaven's hand they accept what is given them from moment to moment: sun, rain, fog, snow, warmth, cold, comfort, and hardship; time does not exist for…
More bloodshed followed, as brother fought brother and religion battled religion in the age-old nonsense of settling whose method of worship was the holiest to our Creator, who, for all our murderous efforts, most likely despises the lot of us.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 27 times in crossword archives (1957–2025).