despise
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“Let me be clear, it’s really difficult to both be proud of Kash and despise him at the same time,” Patel says.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 8, 2026
Wealth advisers and investment managers are trying to convince their clients to embrace an asset class that many have grown to despise.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 1, 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 β 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 β May 25, 2026
“But what have I to do with millions? The eighty, I know, despise me.”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte BrontΓ«
He’s retiring from his House seat this cycle because he has a young family and genuinely despises political life in Washington.
From Slate β Jul. 7, 2026
There is something else Friedman despises: finishing second.
From Los Angeles Times β 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 β Apr. 3, 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 β May 16, 2024
Dad despises violence of any kind, including empty threats.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
After all, Miriam may have been despised by everyone who actually knew her, but she still constitutes the family business.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 3, 2026
It’s about understanding that that the removal of a single despised figurehead isn’t enough.
From Salon β May 8, 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 β Mar. 13, 2026
Hamilton despised those with “no principle but to get money.”
From Barron's β Mar. 1, 2026
They were the despised and rejected, the wretched and the spat upon, the earth’s offscouring; and he was in their company, and they would swallow up his soul.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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 β 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 β Apr. 3, 2026
“I really started despising law enforcement after that,” he said during an interview.
From Los Angeles Times β Mar. 19, 2026
I see movies that I end up despising and I’m still glad I went because I got to have a pretzel and an ice-cold soda and not look at my phone for a few hours.”
From Salon β Jan. 1, 2025
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
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