despise

“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

Cheer him, mock him or despise him; he’ll be here all week, so try the veal.

From Salon ● Aug. 7, 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

Does she look at me and despise her loss?

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

“Drapatiy genuinely despises the Soviet legacy in all its forms,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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

To deal with others, he has sent Karoline Leavitt, his pep secretary, into the Brady Briefing Room to handle the reporters he despises.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

A shiver goes through me when I think of the proximity of my mother and sister to this man who despises me.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

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

Lydia knew she could muster contempt for people she despised.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

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

"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

I think of last night and the idea of my mother committing adultery, hating my father for broken promises, and despising her only child who remains in town.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak