despising

Evidently, despising the very governmental foundation of the United States has become fashionable for a certain type of reactionary conservative.

“The heavy-throttled attack by the defense on Cohen’s credibility, his motives for testifying against Trump, and his despising Trump, is really meaningless, as the prosecutors will argue in summation to the jury,” Gershman told Salon.

"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.

“There is a tradition of despising North Korea in China, and especially in Russia,” Mr. Lankov continued.

Instead of establishing a succession plan, he continued taunting and goading his children into hating each other and despising him.