despise

Example Sentences

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“I really started despising law enforcement after that,” he said during an interview.

From Los Angeles Times

I picked up my own hat—the despised gray one from last year—and trailed after them, one hand clinging to the center post.

From Literature

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

“Well, I’m sorry I don’t understand your super important connection with this boy you’ve spent two years insisting you despise! Maybe if you ever talked to me, I’d know what’s going on.”

From Literature

With even weaker religious credentials than his father, Mr. Khamenei owes his accession to the hereditary principle despised by the 1979 revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal