despise

Audiences just want to look in a mirror, even if they themselves internally despise what they see in that mirror.

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2026

“Let me be clear, it’s really difficult to both be proud of Kash and despise him at the same time,” Patel says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 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

I hate computers for any number of reasons, but I despise them most for what they've done to my friend the typewriter.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 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 are few things Friedman despises more than a deadline trade.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 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

Which gives rise to the thought that maybe he’s hiding in the last place we’d expect; the place he despises more than cauliflower and piano lessons combined—Meadow Creek Elementary School.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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

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

With even weaker religious credentials than his father, Mr. Khamenei owes his accession to the hereditary principle despised by the 1979 revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

He despised the Soviets for what they’d done to him.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

When his father told him about Ruth, he joined him in despising her, but he felt put upon; felt as though some burden had been given to him and that he didn’t deserve it.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison