despise

Blake later claimed to despise the job as a waste of the serious talent he should have used in film.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 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

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

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

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

I believe she despises my weakness for letting the sickness “take holt.”

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

Mr. Mellencamp sang a similar tune in a 1991 interview when he admitted becoming everything he earlier despised.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 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 the passion with which we loved the Lord was a measure of how deeply we feared and distrusted and, in the end, hated almost all strangers, always, and avoided and despised ourselves.

From "The Fire Next Time" 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

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

From Salon ● May 16, 2024

He was doing them a good turn because they had saved his life but, as Hazel knew, he could not help despising them for timid, helpless, stay-at-home creatures who could not fly.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams