despise

Indulge in some workplace schadenfreude: Some people despise their jobs, but, for whatever reason, refuse to leave.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

Wealth advisers and investment managers are trying to convince their clients to embrace an asset class that many have grown to despise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Murphy wanted to make one thing perfectly clear: Fans across America might despise the Dodgers, but he does not.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026

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

“They are brave men, and they despise cowards.”

From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

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 is something else Friedman despises: finishing second.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

With those words, Imai immediately became something of a folk hero to any baseball fan who despises the Dodgers—a group that currently includes just about everyone outside of L.A.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 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

Here, however, amid his other studies, Edward continued to take an illustration course, presaging the 20 years he would spend in commercial illustration, a job he despised.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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

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

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

“Because I despised you the moment I saw you.”

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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 see movies that I end up despising and I’m still glad I went because I got to have a pretzel and an ice-cold soda and not look at my phone for a few hours.”

From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2025

"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

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