Get to know Despising better with 9 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like hate or hatred.
Despising meaning
present participle and gerund of despise
Using Despising
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of despise
- Useful related words include: despisal, hate, hatred.
- In the example corpus, despising often appears in combinations such as: despising the.
Context around Despising
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Despising
- In this selection, "despising" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 27.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, spent, ever, clearly, conservatives and compromises stand out and add context to how "despising" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and clearly despising the superficiality and and even despising other less. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "despising" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with despising
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
We proved ourselves to be stronger than ever, despising compromises, setting the bar higher no matter what. (17 words)
Clearly aligned on the left, her message is extremely strong on the rights of women, inclusivity, and despising conservatives, especially conservative males. (22 words)
This, as well as their familial bond, qualifies them as rivals, even if most of their time in is spent despising the other. (23 words)
Since Aiyedatiwa became the governor of the state, he has received a series of tongue-lashing for deliberately making moves to bring many foes of his former boss to office by despising the latter in what some condemned as a misguided move. (42 words)
Here you are despising the Government for telling ZP and ECZ to swing into action when we all do not like violence, teibalism, etc. instead of supporting it so we can all be happy citizens. (35 words)
We saw some of this in the Christopher Nolan films, with Bruce struggling to put down the cowl and clearly despising the superficiality of his rich playboy Bruce Wayne persona. (30 words)
Example sentences (9)
Despite the monster that White obviously becomes, watching the show for the very first time left me sympathizing with him and even despising other less problematic characters.
This, as well as their familial bond, qualifies them as rivals, even if most of their time in is spent despising the other.
Clearly aligned on the left, her message is extremely strong on the rights of women, inclusivity, and despising conservatives, especially conservative males.
Since Aiyedatiwa became the governor of the state, he has received a series of tongue-lashing for deliberately making moves to bring many foes of his former boss to office by despising the latter in what some condemned as a misguided move.
Even if you’ve somehow made it through life without watching a single battle reenactment, we’ve all seen what despising one another leads to.
Here you are despising the Government for telling ZP and ECZ to swing into action when we all do not like violence, teibalism, etc. instead of supporting it so we can all be happy citizens.
We proved ourselves to be stronger than ever, despising compromises, setting the bar higher no matter what.
We saw some of this in the Christopher Nolan films, with Bruce struggling to put down the cowl and clearly despising the superficiality of his rich playboy Bruce Wayne persona.
Paige—homesick for carousing, hating the food, despising the constant inspections and being thoroughly baffled by the language—went 6–5 in Cuba.
Common combinations with despising
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: