despise
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Blake later claimed to despise the job as a waste of the serious talent he should have used in film.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Co-signers include the Open Markets Institute, an anti-monopoly advocacy and research group in Washington that tends to despise Big Tech, and the Writer’s Guild.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
But it has also triggered an unexpected wave of nostalgia, with some Delhi residents expressing affection for a place they often claimed to despise.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
“As I understand ‘The View,’ which I despise, that’s what they do.
From Salon ● May 13, 2026
In a way I despise them, because they are so much like Carol Campbell, squealing and flinging themselves around.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
No popular music genre despises the present as much as country music.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
He’s retiring from his House seat this cycle because he has a young family and genuinely despises political life in Washington.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
Clough, a brilliant egomaniac who loves beautiful soccer, despises the successes achieved by the “big, hard, dirty, old men” who played under Don Revie, his predecessor and nemesis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
There is something else Friedman despises: finishing second.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
“He loses no opportunity to let me see that he despises me and I inspire aversion in him,” Theo tells Wil.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
Djokovic was despondent after the match, saying he "despised every moment I spent on the court for that".
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Other such eastern refuges were established, and it looked for a time as if the problem of how to preserve America’s most despised animal had been found.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
It’s about understanding that that the removal of a single despised figurehead isn’t enough.
From Salon ● May 8, 2026
Bogle almost certainly would’ve despised cryptocurrency ETFs as speculative instruments that produce no cash flow.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
It didn’t take long for Elizabeth Cady Stanton to realize that she despised small-town life.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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
I could not be near any man without despising myself.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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