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despicio — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • despise verb To feel strong contempt or scorn for someone or something.
  • disdain noun A feeling of contempt or scorn toward someone or something seen as beneath you.

Senses

despicio is used for these senses in English:

  • despise To regard with contempt or scorn.
  • disdain (transitive) To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.
  • look down on (transitive, idiom) To regard or treat as inferior.

disdain — full definition

  1. noun A feeling of contempt or scorn toward someone or something seen as beneath you.
  2. verb To treat someone or something with scorn, as not worth your attention.

Related Latin words