despise

Example Sentences

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Over the next few days, I did what any rational woman falling for a man with a cat she despised would do.

From Los Angeles Times

“Well, I’m sorry I don’t understand your super important connection with this boy you’ve spent two years insisting you despise! Maybe if you ever talked to me, I’d know what’s going on.”

From Literature

With even weaker religious credentials than his father, Mr. Khamenei owes his accession to the hereditary principle despised by the 1979 revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal

Decades of research on rally-around-the-flag effects – the tendency of populations to unite behind their government when attacked by a foreign power – confirms that external attacks fuse regime and nation, even when citizens despise their leaders.

From Salon

It’s also difficult to gauge how many of Iran’s 93 million people despise the government enough to rise up against it.

From Los Angeles Times