despise

It will be the category’s most-seen movie and sports one Taylor Swift song released this year that critics don’t outright despise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

He didn’t have much reason to despise Cornyn, beyond a stray comment here or there.

From Slate ● May 30, 2026

‘It is easy for you to despise and shrug your shoulders,' his father had said, seeing how it was. ‘You pay no attention to what a man has done.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill

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

There are few things Friedman despises more than a deadline trade.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

These days, the online literati despises Shriver as a matter of principle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 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

“The old guard despises me because I live and glean with a flair they sorely lack,” Goddard had told Rowan.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

That would make the story about himself, which he despised.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Here, however, amid his other studies, Edward continued to take an illustration course, presaging the 20 years he would spend in commercial illustration, a job he despised.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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

It’s about understanding that that the removal of a single despised figurehead isn’t enough.

From Salon ● May 8, 2026

So here I am, the most despised person in Chokecherry.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

Haney reminded jurors that despising the rich isn’t a crime, much less an abnormal opinion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

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

Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley