despised

Example Sentences

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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

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

It shifted the blame for the rupture of the friendship onto the Hamiltonians, whom he knew Adams utterly despised, then invited Adams to align himself, at least retrospectively, with the Republican side of the debate.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis