despise

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

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

But they didn’t despise him, he knew that....

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

There is something else Friedman despises: finishing second.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

These days, the online literati despises Shriver as a matter of principle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 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

They also report that he's boxed his lawyers into an "absolutist" defense, to appease a client "who despises weakness and is allergic to anything but praise from the people around him."

From Salon ● May 13, 2024

He despises the French nicknames Dad has for all of us.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

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

He despised the way Mauldin portrayed the soldiers and thought it gave the world an unflattering picture of the troops.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 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

He despised those American colonials who had fought against his England, yet he still chose to settle in Philadelphia, where he set up a royalist newspaper called The Porcupine's Gazette.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

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

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

From Salon ● May 16, 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