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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.

These two cultures have despised each other from the beginning, the author suggests, and still do.

Crowds on both sides climbed atop the despised divider with pickaxes and literally began knocking it down.

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