despise

Two classic Big Ten programs that despise each other, barely clinging to dignity, battling it out in a face-saving duel for an anthropomorphic fruit-filled pastry best served after toasting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

“Let me be clear, it’s really difficult to both be proud of Kash and despise him at the same time,” Patel says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Cheer him, mock him or despise him; he’ll be here all week, so try the veal.

From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026

Regional mayors were an untested concept at the time but Burnham made the role his own - and used it to build a powerful platform, untainted by the London-centric Westminster politics he professes to despise.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

—They are different men here, men I cannot properly understand, whom I envy and despise.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

To deal with others, he has sent Karoline Leavitt, his pep secretary, into the Brady Briefing Room to handle the reporters he despises.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

There is something else Friedman despises: finishing second.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

But Donio isn’t giving up his 2020 Audi A4, which he enjoys despite it having the feature he despises.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

“I am thrilled about that. That makes me qualified to be homeland security secretary and senior adviser to the president,” referring to Noem and Stephen Miller, whom Tillis also despises.

From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2026

She despises me, he realized, but no more than I despise myself.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Their exits that of 24-time Grand Slam champion and fourth seed Novak Djokovic in the first round, with the Serb saying he "despised every moment I spent on the court for that".

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

It’s about understanding that that the removal of a single despised figurehead isn’t enough.

From Salon ● May 8, 2026

That team became the lordly Yankees, an “aesthetically evil” and “universally despised dynasty” that, nonetheless, Mr. Gittlitz grudgingly admits, has a lot of working-class fans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Bogle almost certainly would’ve despised cryptocurrency ETFs as speculative instruments that produce no cash flow.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

She began having long conversations with Father in Yiddish, speaking a language she had once despised to a man who no longer existed.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

He is described as a man who had “poked his chin up sideways, carrying his nose with that aforesaid appearance of ‘sniff,’ as though despising an egg which he knew he could not digest.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

Society is depicted as "worshiping only power and money, despising art, sensitivity, tenderness, where people ...don't talk anymore."

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

“I really started despising law enforcement after that,” he said during an interview.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026

"It's astonishing how people can put so much vitriol and energy into despising someone. It's extraordinarily damaging," she says of the most bitter sibling rivalry.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2024

Before, they had laughed at me, despising me for my ignorance and dullness; now, they hated me for my knowledge and understanding.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes