despise

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

“I’ll shut up; I know you despise them.”

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

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 is something else Friedman despises: finishing second.

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

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

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

After all, Miriam may have been despised by everyone who actually knew her, but she still constitutes the family business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Djokovic was despondent after the match, saying he "despised every moment I spent on the court for that".

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 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

“He and Professor Trelawney are dividing classes between them this year,” said Professor McGonagall, a hint of disapproval in her voice; it was common knowledge that she despised the subject of Divination.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

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

His book was so vivid and graphic that President Theodore Roosevelt, despite personally despising Sinclair, felt obligated to investigate the matter.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2021

“We started off on each other’s nerves. We ended up despising each other. But that was a long time ago.”

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson