Despises is valid Scrabble Word

Is despises a scrabble word?
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8 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for DESPISES in dictionary:

VERB:

DESPISE, to look down upon with contempt
feel contempt or a deep repugnance for

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to loathe

Words related to DESPISES

despise10 despised12 despising13

How to use DESPISES in a sentence

Evidently the usher, in common with his kind, despises those who are not holders of reserved seats.
The practical man who despises philosophy has simply misunderstood the thing he despises.
It despises other nations as much as France did in the last century, or England after the wars of Napoleon.
You have not been received at this house of late years, and my father still despises you.
That deluded eye now clearly sees its fault, and the misled heart despises it for it.
Society despises the unmarried woman who bears a child.
Whether you examine the conduct of the nation at large, or that of its chiefs and leaders, your feelings revolt at the one, and your integrity despises the other.
The man of the world despises catholics for taking their religious opinions on trust and being the slaves of tradition.
True valor is ever joined with generosity, and despises to take advantage of superior strength to crush the weaker.
He was a Spaniard, who had been in this country only a few months, and despises it heartily.

Every one despises me because of the trick which I played the Eagle, our King.
A person who despises or fails to sympathise with all the sorrow and the sin in the lives of others is the worst of sinners.
The enlightened scholar of the Cross, if he regards the one thing needful, rightly despises all lower studies.
A man can take to drinking, and gambling and all the rest of it, and nobody despises him a bit.
In her heart every woman despises any hint of the effeminate in man.
But I remark, once more, that while Christianity neither despises nor affects to desire sorrow, it clearly recognizes its great and beneficial mission.
Their views on the world and other problems are entirely conflicting yet each despises the other, is inimical to and censures every other creed.
But he is a philosopher, and despises purple and linen.
No man values the best medicine, if administered by a physician, whose person he hates or despises.
Withdraw him gently from the queen, whom he does not like, from Mazarin, whom he despises.
Frank has been making love to my daughter and she has shown him plainly how she despises him.
Ingraham, equally as notorious as a counsel of slave-hunters whom everybody here despises, might have served you in this matter.
He despises money, but claims it as his right to have proper recognition of his services, which the Government should have given him generously and with both hands.
The real working man knows such people well, and heartily despises them.
His mind has conquered your vulgar prejudices, but has also fully seen through them, and despises you accordingly.

Similar words containing SPISE without suffix s and without prefix de

aspises9 despise10 despised12 despiser11 jaspises17 despisers12 despisement16 despisedness16 despisements17 despisednesses18

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