despise
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Cheer him, mock him or despise him; he’ll be here all week, so try the veal.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
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
He didn’t have much reason to despise Cornyn, beyond a stray comment here or there.
From Slate ● May 30, 2026
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
If Peter and his friends hated me before, they will despise me now.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
He’s retiring from his House seat this cycle because he has a young family and genuinely despises political life in Washington.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
To deal with others, he has sent Karoline Leavitt, his pep secretary, into the Brady Briefing Room to handle the reporters he despises.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
Clough, a brilliant egomaniac who loves beautiful soccer, despises the successes achieved by the “big, hard, dirty, old men” who played under Don Revie, his predecessor and nemesis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
There is something else Friedman despises: finishing second.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
I believe she despises my weakness for letting the sickness “take holt.”
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
That would make the story about himself, which he despised.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Their exits that of 24-time Grand Slam champion and fourth seed Novak Djokovic in the first round, with the Serb saying he "despised every moment I spent on the court for that".
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
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
“Because I despised you the moment I saw you.”
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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
“Everything Cohen says about adulating, and then despising Trump, is bolstered and corroborated by massive other evidence.”
From Salon ● May 16, 2024
He stayed there two weeks, dismayed at its ferocious indifference to the drums of his destiny, to destiny itself, and despising the janitor's work with which he was to pay his way through.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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