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They despised them with a passion rarely directed at any plant species.
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He was acutely aware that a great many of the people who had given him their money now despised him.
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Students are encouraged to despise their society and kept ignorant of anything that might make them think otherwise.
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These two cultures have despised each other from the beginning, the author suggests, and still do.
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Crowds on both sides climbed atop the despised divider with pickaxes and literally began knocking it down.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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