Despise is valid Scrabble Word

Is despise a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is despise valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for DESPISE in dictionary:

VERB:

to look down upon with contempt
feel contempt or a deep repugnance for
regard with contempt
To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of.
look down on with disdain

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to loathe

Words related to DESPISE

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Words that contain DESPISE

despised12 despiser11 despises11 despisers12 despisement16 despisedness16 despisements17 despisednesses18

How to use DESPISE in a sentence

He began to despise her for her spiritless submission.
Likewise these dreamers defile the flesh, despise rulers, and speak evil of them that are in authority.
The most wicked and abandoned of men cannot be brought to esteem what they wish they could esteem, or to despise what they wish they could despise.
In old times they had looked out of this house under lowered and defiant brows, knowing there was none without who knew of them who did not despise them.
As these natives had now unfortunately learnt to despise our weapons I was compelled to act promptly, or blood would undoubtedly have been shed.
Hilary, despise his job as he might, found it slipping from him more and more.
Meantime, he tried to put down the Christian faith by laughing at it, and trying to get people to despise it as something low and mean.
There was always Phoebe, but Ishmael was growing of an age to despise girls.
Despising others, it was in the logical order of things that I should follow my conclusions to their bitter end, and consistently despise myself.
We Goths, also, of Ravenna, hope you will not despise our arch-Goth, Theodoric.

It is an error of youth to despise parrots for their much talking.
The other people are our brothers, and there is not one of them that we have a right to despise, or neglect, or hurt, or thrust away from our door.
Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.
For the life of him Gaston could not despise the young fellow.
It was strange that Plade, with his clear conception, should do less than despise his acquaintance.
He will despise no one, for he will have learned to see the Face of the Beloved in every face, and to find His traces everywhere.
Without that privilege she would despise all the others.
One man, like many of old, stirred up the people to reject and despise the truth.
He did not want Marie to hear what Joe might tell There was no use, he told himself miserably, in making Marie despise him as well as hate him.
We do not believe in the former, and we cannot but despise the latter.
I despise the world yet, I assure you, more than either Gay or you, and the court more than all the rest of the world.
It is not good to despise such a sly and subtle enemy, especially in the hour and power of darkness.
Gold, pearls, and precious stones, and others of like nature, which are considered in Europe as riches, they hold in no estimation, or rather despise them as of no use.
If you had seen yourself, and how noble you looked, you would pity rather than despise me.
My first masters taught me to despise laymen, and inculcated the idea that the man who has not a mission in life is the scum of the earth.
His family would find nothing to admire in her, and she, he felt certain, would despise them all, and this, too, would help him.
They tolerate, not because they despise opinions, but because they respect justice.
They can avoid a fatal tendency to look down on and despise the younger men who are planting their feet in their own footsteps.
Your grandfather did not despise them for their instability.

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