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# despising

«despising» in Mova's school dictionary: **Hating or looking down on someone or something; the same…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (the -ing form of despise; see despise)

### meaning for a pupil

Hating or looking down on someone or something; the same sense as despise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/despising/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a proud person who is despising others is often unkind.

### examples

- He went on despising the new boy for no reason. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/despising/#x1)
- Despising others will not make you happy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/despising/#x2)
- She kept despising the rules of the game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/despising/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «despising» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/despising/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.