Synonyms for despised
de·spised

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1. despised, detested, hated, scornedadjective

   treated with contempt

   Synonyms:
   scorned, detested, hated

   Antonyms:
   loved

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1. List of paraphrases for "despised":

   scorned, despise, flouted

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1. Christian Nevell Bovee:

   Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

2. Tony Blinken:

   [Putin] managed to sow doubt about our electoral system. He managed to help defeat the candidate that he despised Hillary Clinton. He managed to get the first national security adviser adviser fired, he managed to instigate instigate multiple counterintelligence investigations and now he's managed in effect to cause the president to fire the FBI director who is investigating him because of concerns about collusion with Russia.

3. The Republicans:

   To pull out a candidate on the second round is rather unfair. Today, they're twisting the arm of the French, of the left. Are they going to accept being insulted, despised? We'll see.

4. George Sand:

   If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.

5. Fred Guttenberg:

   She was the toughest, wisest person I ever knew, my daughter always fought for what was right. My daughter despised bullies and would put herself in the middle of someone being bullied to make it stop.