Despreciar means ‘to despise/scorn’. It is a regular -ar verb: desprecio (present), desprecié (preterite), despreciado (past participle), despreciando (gerund).
Despreciar in use
Desprecia a quienes piensan de otra maneraShe despises anyone who thinks differently
Despreció la oferta sin leerla siquieraShe turned down the offer without even reading it
Nunca te despreciaría por algo asíI would never look down on you for something like that
On this pageIndicative
Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
The other perfect tenses (haber + past participle) and the past subjunctive
The imperfect subjunctive has two forms: -ra (more common in speech) and -se (more formal; still heard in speech in Spain, mainly written in Latin America). Both are equally correct and interchangeable.
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