despise
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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
People either love the sitcom’s cartoonish flourishes or despise them.
From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2026
“I know they think I’m a pliant little lapdog,” Martin tells Richard, “but I despise them as much as they despise the rest of us for not being them.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
But they didn’t despise him, he knew that....
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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
They also report that he's boxed his lawyers into an "absolutist" defense, to appease a client "who despises weakness and is allergic to anything but praise from the people around him."
From Salon ● May 13, 2024
She and Wil are visiting Anna, whom he sarcastically refers to as his “charming sister,” the one who despises him.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
It’s about understanding that that the removal of a single despised figurehead isn’t enough.
From Salon ● May 8, 2026
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 ● Mar. 13, 2026
Hamilton despised those with “no principle but to get money.”
From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026
They are notorious goons, despised virtually everywhere for their ability to agitate, aggrieve and annoy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
Lydia knew she could muster contempt for people she despised.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
Haney reminded jurors that despising the rich isn’t a crime, much less an abnormal opinion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
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
“Everything Cohen says about adulating, and then despising Trump, is bolstered and corroborated by massive other evidence.”
From Salon ● May 16, 2024
When his father told him about Ruth, he joined him in despising her, but he felt put upon; felt as though some burden had been given to him and that he didn’t deserve it.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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