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

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

I grew up in a region trained to despise New York sports teams.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

“As I understand ‘The View,’ which I despise, that’s what they do.

From Salon ● May 13, 2026

“But I look better in blue and I despise purple.”

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

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

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

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

Which gives rise to the thought that maybe he’s hiding in the last place we’d expect; the place he despises more than cauliflower and piano lessons combined—Meadow Creek Elementary School.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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

Mr. Mellencamp sang a similar tune in a 1991 interview when he admitted becoming everything he earlier despised.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 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

Is Vincent thinking of himself as despised and rejected, esteemed not?

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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

“We started off on each other’s nerves. We ended up despising each other. But that was a long time ago.”

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson