(a.) Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy.
(a.) Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings; happy; highly favored.
(a.) Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness; blissful; joyful.
(a.) Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or heavenly felicity; as, the blessed in heaven.
(a.) Beatified.
(a.) Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some parents are blessed with a soul that lights up every time their little precious brings them a carefully crafted portrait or home-made greetings card.
(2) Attorneys for people caught on the US’s sprawling terrorism watchlists are expressing concern that the latest tactic by gun control advocates is blessing the legitimacy of a process they say threatens civil rights.
(3) I often remind him that after a test or a difficulty, blessings arrive.
(4) The move, first mooted two months ago, has been instigated with Jol's blessing and the new man was quick to insist he had spent "many hours" talking with his compatriot prior to accepting the position, even if his arrival effectively dilutes the manager's powerbase at the club.
(5) Unable to tap international markets, with its banks forced to rely on limited emergency funding provided on a week-by-week basis with the blessing of the ECB, it is fast running out of cash.
(6) The fact that property is unequally distributed so many people don't have blessed "property rights" gets airbrushed from the theory.
(7) Waitrose evokes strong opinions: from sniffy derision about the supermarket's perceived airs and graces to expressions of joy from middle-class incomers when their gentrified area is blessed with a branch.
(8) Photograph: Alex Lake for Observer Food Monthly Sky Sports’ managing director, Barney Francis, added: “We wish Gary all the very best as he returns to football with our blessing and begins his managerial career with Valencia.
(9) May God bless you all, and may God continue to bless America.
(10) It is a sacred moment, and you feel blessed merely to have witnessed it.
(11) He’s gifted, a blessed young man with incredible hand speed and power.
(12) We felt blessed,” said Rebecca, pulling out another family picture in which a smiling Sarah leans her head against her mother’s shoulder, her younger siblings crowing around them.
(13) He often claimed that God had blessed him with the gift of the delayed hangover, one that kicked in only when he had done his day's work.
(14) While big businesses have enjoyed access to new couriers, Royal Mail itself eventually reached such a dire state that the Hooper report urged the government to rewrite the law to clarify that competition was a mixed blessing.
(15) Rate of progression of dementia was determined in 77 patients by repeated administration of the Blessed Dementia Scale (BDS).
(16) For whatever reason, the team is not gelling, despite substantial financial backing in the summer and the dressing room being blessed with a huge amount of quality.
(17) I wish him - with Caroline and the family - every blessing, and hope that the church of England and the Anglican communion will share my pleasure at this appointment and support him with prayer and love."
(18) Meena Raman of the Malaysia-based Third World Network told IPS: "Given the stance of the United States thus far in the Rio+20 negotiations, and the position they have taken in the climate change negotiations in Durban, it may perhaps be a blessing that President Obama is not coming to Rio."
(19) It was an unbelievable feeling,” Keating told Associated Press, adding she felt “totally blessed and loved” by the pope.
(20) Quite a number of people brought up in the emotional straitjackets of the English upper classes found blessed relief in the permission the Holy Spirit gave them to weep or laugh and gibber and faint in public.
Despise
Definition:
(v. t.) To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indeed, it is democracy itself that the markets seem to despise.
(2) We were immediately sure he despised the movie more than any of the other Hollywood McCarthy adaptations – and there had been a few stinkers.
(3) Disowned by family and despised by public opinion, she is now in prison.
(4) The militant group, which despises foreign intervention, has expelled numerous international and local aid groups from the territory it controls.
(5) First, medicine was despised as a mechanical art or suspected of paganism because of its literary sources.
(6) How would you describe a person with an adoring sister and admiring father creating a child despised by father and siblings?
(7) In the wake of plunging costs in global market, prices on the forecourt have fallen much faster than household heating bills, which may be why petrol and oil companies are less despised than home energy suppliers – also being named by 26%.
(8) He has been derided in these pages, but that derision is surpassed by the venomous hatred of the Daily Mail , which loathes the Cameron government in any case and particularly despised Mitchell in his previous job.
(9) "I've always despised it to a certain degree but after this last few years and all this nonsense with the films, I believe it to be a completely poisonous place that isn't really going anywhere.
(10) Though he despised “race-baiting”, Noir wrote, “covert racism is a real thing and is very dangerous.
(11) So far, concerns about reproductions creeping on to the collectibles market seem greater than any worries about the reintroduction of objects that resurrect old, despised stereotypes.
(12) It's a melancholy fate for any writer to become an eponym for all that he despised, but that is what happened to George Orwell, whose memory is routinely abused in unthinking uses of the adjective "Orwellian".
(13) What an irony that our own MPs and peers, who complain so bitterly about the draining of British sovereignty to Brussels, were not trusted to discuss this issue – while the despised European parliament has, over the past year, freely, intelligently, intricately and repeatedly addressed it.
(14) The group despised the liberal socialism of the dominant Labour Zionists and its goal was an "Iron Wall" to defend Jews against what they deemed would be an inevitable backlash by Arabs.
(15) They were never aggressive, they were never forcing it down your throat … but you were left with no illusions looking at their social media that they were a) Chelsea fans and b) Ukip supporters.” He said he “despised” racism and described the actions on the film as appalling, adding that it in no way represented the views of most people at his former school.
(16) Vronsky, who had despised Karenin because he wouldn't fight a duel, is now humiliated and dishonoured; Karenin, flooded with forgiveness for everyone, wins back Anna's respect.
(17) He promised to take us "to the heart of Europe", but left behind a country more Europhobic than ever – and more despised in a Europe that he berated to appease Rupert Murdoch.
(18) They despised Bond's characters, his "slavishly literal bawdry", the lack of artistry in his writing.
(19) Malone, who was made a billionaire several times over by the AT&T deal, despised being answerable to the parent company's board and wanted out.
(20) Johnson was despised on the right and left by the time he was driven from office in 1968.