despise

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

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

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

“The judge will decide where you will live,” Mr. Ferris said in the mushy voice I had come to despise.

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

No popular music genre despises the present as much as country music.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026

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

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

He thinks I will be here, but I will be working against him, working with the father he despises.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

Hamilton despised those with “no principle but to get money.”

From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026

They are notorious goons, despised virtually everywhere for their ability to agitate, aggrieve and annoy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

Part of Lord Mandelson's mystique - and one of the reasons why he is despised by some in the Labour movement - is his love of political intrigue, gossip and plots.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026

If the person I cared most about in the world despised my efforts, how could I hope that anyone else would like it?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2026

Contemporary European rulers also included some who despised guns and tried to restrict their availability.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

"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

Instead of establishing a succession plan, he continued taunting and goading his children into hating each other and despising him.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2023

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