despise
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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
“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
That famous quotation that is always misattributed to Voltaire, “I despise what you say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.”
From Slate • Sep. 22, 2025
“I despise them,” Councilman Butch Twining said of the white nationalists who disrupted the vigil.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2025
May 25—So this is how a person can come to despise himself—knowing he’s doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
Vocabulary lists containing despise
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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