Disesteem

These brutes held me in little respect; and, after all, human nature is so strange a compound that even a philosopher dislikes being held in disesteem by the brutes of his own species. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's a measure of the disesteem in which President Bush is held. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And it is a particular disesteem of every knowing person alive, and most injurious to the written labours and monuments of the dead, so to me it seems an undervaluing and vilifying of the whole nation. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Hence, again, by a sufficiently visible chain of thought, his marked disesteem for far-sounding names of brutal conquerors, and his cold regard for those outward and material circumstances in the state of nations, which strike the sense, but do not touch the inward reason. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I would not, therefore, be thought to disesteem or dissuade the study of nature. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Both, despite the disesteem it is fashionable to heap upon them, are honorable professions. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Let us not be so illiberal with our schemes for the renovation of society and nature, as to disesteem or deny the literary spirit. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Containing infallible nostrums for procuring universal disesteem and hatred ❋ Unknown (2004)

With all the security which love of another and disesteem of him could give to the peace of mind he was attacking, his continued attentions — continued, but not obtrusive, and adapting themselves more and more to the gentleness and delicacy of her character — obliged her very soon to dislike him less than formerly. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Cassius was much displeased at this answer; and among the rest, Atellius was had in much disesteem for it. ❋ Plutarch (2003)

It is more than probable that their first laws will have the title only of Regulations and be enforced by no other penalty than public disesteem. ❋ Unknown (2002)

If any person thinks the examination of the rest of the animal kingdom an unworthy task, he must hold in like disesteem the study of man. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Another thing that I am persuaded that had impact was the Vietnam war, which I think consciously or unconsciously brought the WASP establishment into greater disesteem [and] made people more suspicious of it than they had been before. ❋ Unknown (1989)

A man may sometimes beat a servant for the instruction of his son; God hath shaken the enjoyments of his enemies to lead his friends to disesteem them. ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)

We lose it, I confess, by our unbelief and disesteem of it; but it will be found to be an inestimable treasure to those that use it, and improve it in a due manner. ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)

And it is no less true also, on the other hand, as unbelief works in men a disesteem of the person and righteousness of Christ, they are cast inevitably to seek for countenance unto their own consciences in the extenuation of sin. ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)

But there is still another class which could not exist in the Socialistic state, and which a great part of mankind holds in profound disesteem, but which is essential nevertheless. ❋ Edward Francis Adams (N/A)