Despiser

At one extreme was Andrea McArdle's Miss Hannigan, boozy and bitter, a despiser of children (an unfortunate trait for an administrator of an orphanage). ❋ James Scarborough (2010)

Still, she is a better choice than B.O. who is coming across as an elitist racist, demeanor of ordinary suburban people, sider with Farrakhan and hateful religious beliefs, despiser of traditions, abaser of the American seniors - and he has backers who trust him???? ❋ Unknown (2008)

That oath, of course, is administered by a defiantly proud, even cheerful, self-admitted war criminal Dick Cheney, a serial subverter and despiser of the Constitution, with whose eternally disgraceful continued presence in office Reid and his minions have had no particular problem despite their profound Constitutional responsibility to end it by impeaching him. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And I say that as a despiser of the first, who who not an orator but a 24 carat bullshitter; and as a loyal subject of the second, who has the supreme gift of regal detachment and a deep sense of duty, but probably no common sense at all - if she had, she would have abdicated long ago, having been betrayed by almost every government during her reign in one way or another. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Well, this despiser of Democrats thinks it is a big deal. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

Augustine, incidentally, is by no means the despiser of reason depicted in Objectivist lore; indeed, we all owe an incalculable debt to Augustine for championing the Greek philosophical tradition against those Christians who sought to jettison all pagan thought. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This despiser of the laws of elegance had brushed and perfumed his hair; his waistcoat followed the fashion, his cravat was well tied, the bosom of his shirt was irreproachably smooth. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Apparently, George W. Bush -- famed warmonger, despoiler of lands, despiser of gays and women and science and earthly resource, hapless fascist-wannabe -- it seems George just visited Guatemala, where he happily trod upon a holy Mayan site or two and shook hands with wary diplomats and blinked a lot and mispronounced a hundred different names. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Fulvia, written after the horrors of the proscriptions, proves that he was no less a despiser of decency in his language than he was a barbarian in his conduct. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Or if he be a freeman, in addition to being thought a mean person and a despiser of the laws, let him pay ten times the value of the treasure which he has moved to the leaver. ❋ Unknown (2006)

She elicits the final truth from one who knows nothing, and who, speaking by the lips of another, and himself a despiser of rhetoric, is proved also to be the most consummate of rhetoricians (compare Menexenus). ❋ Unknown (2006)

Not that dialectic is a respecter of names or persons, or a despiser of humble occupations; nor does she think much of the greater or less benefits conferred by them. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"He who says that Moses wrote even one verse of his own knowledge is a denier and despiser of the word of God." ❋ Julie D. (2005)

So where does this lover of Trotsky and hater of God, this despiser of religion and tradition and devotee of “permanent revolution,” this anti-Catholic bigot and reviler of Reagan and John Paul, now find an ideological home? ❋ Steve Sailer (2005)

They angrily replied that he had now shown his true colors as a despiser of the monastery, having denied that the Areopagite was their patron saint. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Mr.St. John the greatest young man I ever knew; wit, capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehension, good learning, and an excellent taste; the best orator in the House of Commons, admirable conversation, good nature, and good manners; generous, and a despiser of money. ❋ Unknown (2003)

‘Whence hadst thou that song, despiser of this world?’ ❋ Unknown (2003)

One reviewer explicitly connected Byron's religious heterodoxy to his degraded representations of women: The same proud hardness of heart which makes the author of Don Juan a despiser of the ❋ Unknown (2001)