DESPISED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does despised mean? 

• DESPISED (adjective)
  The adjective DESPISED has 1 sense:

1. treated with dislike or contempt

  Familiarity information: DESPISED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DESPISED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Treated with dislike or contempt

Synonyms:

despised; detested; hated; scorned

Similar:

unloved (not loved)

 Context examples 

Hence there is less distinction between the several classes of its inhabitants; and the lower orders, being neither so poor nor so despised, their manners are more refined and moral.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Oh! my dear father, can you suppose it possible that they will not be censured and despised wherever they are known, and that their sisters will not be often involved in the disgrace?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I could see that she hated me and feared me, and when the thought of it drove me to drink, then she despised me as well.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was a man who had three sons, the youngest of whom was called Dummling, and was despised, mocked, and sneered at on every occasion.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

You fought and ruled the gang, not because you liked to,—you know you really despised it,—but because the other fellows patted you on the shoulder.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They are despised and hated by all sorts of people.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I was half beside myself with glee; and if ever I despised a man, it was old Tom Redruth, who could do nothing but grumble and lament.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But I really thought before, young men despised novels amazingly.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Had he been only in a violent fever, you would not have despised him half so much.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She had despised him, and loved another; and he had been very much aware that it was so.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)