Word Meanings - DESPECTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A looking down; a despising. W. Montagu.

Related words: (words related to DESPECTION)

• LOOKDOWN
  See
• DESPISINGLY
  Contemptuously.
• LOOK
  1. To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; -- with various prepositions, often in a special or figurative sense. See Phrases below. 2. To
• LOOKOUT
  1. A careful looking or watching for any object or event. 2. The place from which such observation is made. 3. A person engaged in watching. 4. Object or duty of forethought and care; responsibility.
• DESPISEMENT
  A despising. Holland.
• DESPISAL
  A despising; contempt. A despisal of religion. South.
• DESPISE
  To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of. Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Prov. i. 7. Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who
• DESPISER
  One who despises; a contemner; a scorner.
• LOOKING-GLASS
  A mirror made of glass on which has been placed a backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver. There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass. South.
• DESPISABLE
  Despicable; contemptible.
• LOOKER
  One who looks. Looker-on, a spectator; one that looks on, but has no agency or part in an affair. Did not this fatal war affront thy coast, Yet sattest thou an idle looker-on Fairfax.
• DESPISEDNESS
  The state of being despised.
• LOOKING
  Having a certain look or appearance; -- often compounded with adjectives; as, good-looking, grand-looking, etc.
• ILL-LOOKING
  Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv.
• FLOOKAN; FLUKAN
  See FLUCAN
• FLOOKY
  Fluky.
• DOWNLOOKED
  Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen. Dryden.
• GOOD-LOOKING
  Handsome.
• BEAUMONTAGUE
  A cement used in making joints, filling cracks, etc. For iron, the principal constituents are iron borings and sal ammoniac; for wood, white lead or litharge, whiting, and linseed oil.
• ON-LOOKING
  Looking on or forward.
• OVERLOOK
  1. To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill. "The pile o'erlooked the town." Dryden. with burning eye did
• LADY'S LOOKING-GLASS
  See VENUS
• PRELOOK
  To look forward. Surrey.
• UNLOOKED-FOR
  Not looked for; unexpected; as, an unlooked-for event.
• TALOOK; TALUK
  A large estate; esp., one constituting a revenue district or dependency the native proprietor of which is responsible for the collection and payment of the public revenue due from it.
• TALOOKDAR; TALUKDAR
  A proprietor of a talook.