despise

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

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

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

“It’s impossible. . . . If I do that, my kids, my grandkids would despise me. My wife will despise me.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

Kit curtsied, noting with satisfaction that this was one woman who did not despise vain adornment.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

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

And “Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.”

From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2025

Cicero, who despises Catalina for his reckless idealism, is one of many characters trying to bring the architect to heel.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2024

Daniels had never suggested otherwise in previous testimony, in fact, and it further bolstered her credibility to compliment a man she clearly despises on his conversational skills.

From Slate ● May 10, 2024

A shiver goes through me when I think of the proximity of my mother and sister to this man who despises me.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

Burnham has long been unusual as a politician - a leader who has managed to be popular in a time when politicians often disappoint and are sometimes despised.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 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

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

And just like Scythe Volta, he despised himself for it.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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 see movies that I end up despising and I’m still glad I went because I got to have a pretzel and an ice-cold soda and not look at my phone for a few hours.”

From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2025

"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