despise

I was genuinely searching for real answers in “The Man Will Burn” to lingering questions like, what’s up with these clowns and why do so many people despise them?

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 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

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

It’s also difficult to gauge how many of Iran’s 93 million people despise the government enough to rise up against it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026

No matter how much I despise this pageant, it’s not something I can just say no to.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

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 are few things Friedman despises more than a deadline trade.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

And “Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.”

From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2025

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 loses no opportunity to let me see that he despises me and I inspire aversion in him,” Theo tells Wil.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

Burnham has long been unusual as a politician - a leader who has managed to be popular in a time when politicians often disappoint and are sometimes despised.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

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

From Salon ● May 8, 2026

Bogle almost certainly would’ve despised cryptocurrency ETFs as speculative instruments that produce no cash flow.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 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

Some time after General Benedict Arnold took command in Philadelphia, he sent for Joseph Stansbury, a local merchant who was despised by Patriots.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen

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

“Everything Cohen says about adulating, and then despising Trump, is bolstered and corroborated by massive other evidence.”

From Salon ● May 16, 2024

"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

Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley