despise

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

From Salon ● Aug. 7, 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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

"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

His book was so vivid and graphic that President Theodore Roosevelt, despite personally despising Sinclair, felt obligated to investigate the matter.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2021

I should have been flattered that she cared, but I hated the feeling of every student in the classroom looking at me, despising me.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson