despise

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

I grew up in a region trained to despise New York sports teams.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 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

The fact that he never bothered to remember our names was insulting, but neither was that slight, alone, enough to make us despise him.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

No popular music genre despises the present as much as country music.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 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

There is something else Friedman despises: finishing second.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

But Donio isn’t giving up his 2020 Audi A4, which he enjoys despite it having the feature he despises.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

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

Burnham has long been unusual as a politician - a leader who has managed to be popular in a time when politicians often disappoint and are sometimes despised.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Other such eastern refuges were established, and it looked for a time as if the problem of how to preserve America’s most despised animal had been found.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

It’s about understanding that that the removal of a single despised figurehead isn’t enough.

From Salon ● May 8, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

It was so despised that Americans broke new ground in finding imaginative ways to get around it.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

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

The neglect of the dishes, I discovered, was due to a curious impasse: Sally, the maid, now serving also as cook, refused to clean dishes, despising the lowly office of scullion.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson