despise

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

“As I understand ‘The View,’ which I despise, that’s what they do.

From Salon ● May 13, 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

Kit curtsied, noting with satisfaction that this was one woman who did not despise vain adornment.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

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

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

Daniels had never suggested otherwise in previous testimony, in fact, and it further bolstered her credibility to compliment a man she clearly despises on his conversational skills.

From Slate ● May 10, 2024

Dad despises violence of any kind, including empty threats.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

“You have to keep coming back. So, I received the grace of being rejected, the grace of being despised, and the gift of saying: ‘Okay, now we’re going to start all over again.’”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

Hamilton despised those with “no principle but to get money.”

From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026

Part of Lord Mandelson's mystique - and one of the reasons why he is despised by some in the Labour movement - is his love of political intrigue, gossip and plots.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026

They despised them with a passion rarely directed at any plant species.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025

And Elizabeth found that she was watching Gabriel, unable to find in the man before her the brother whom Florence so despised.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

Haney reminded jurors that despising the rich isn’t a crime, much less an abnormal opinion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

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

He stayed there two weeks, dismayed at its ferocious indifference to the drums of his destiny, to destiny itself, and despising the janitor's work with which he was to pay his way through.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald