6 sentences with “despised”

The old noble families may have despised the "nouveau riche", but they still married into them if they needed the money.

They were resented by the poor (who remained the vast majority of the population), often despised by the traditional land-owning nobles, and frequently condemned by the Church.

Of all social classes, bankers in particular were despised by traditional elites as they not only produced nothing themselves, but (apparently) profited from the wealth of others.

Colbert was the model of a powerful commoner despised by the nobility: not only was he part of the system that kept the nobility's power in check, but he was a mere merchant's son.

Cavour's plans for a united Italy led by Piedmont did not include the south, which like most northern Italians he despised. Thus, in a real sense southern Italy emerged as the unfortunate loser of the unification wars, even more so than Austria.

The Romans had always despised the "barbarians" and believed that the lands the barbarians possessed (such as Scotland and Germania) were largely unsuitable for civilisation, as they were too cold and wet for the kind of Mediterranean agriculture the Romans were used to.