despise

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

He didn’t have much reason to despise Cornyn, beyond a stray comment here or there.

From Slate ● May 30, 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

“As I understand ‘The View,’ which I despise, that’s what they do.

From Salon ● May 13, 2026

But they didn’t despise him, he knew that....

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

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

With those words, Imai immediately became something of a folk hero to any baseball fan who despises the Dodgers—a group that currently includes just about everyone outside of L.A.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025

Cicero, who despises Catalina for his reckless idealism, is one of many characters trying to bring the architect to heel.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2024

I believe she despises my weakness for letting the sickness “take holt.”

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

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

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

With even weaker religious credentials than his father, Mr. Khamenei owes his accession to the hereditary principle despised by the 1979 revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

Part of Lord Mandelson's mystique - and one of the reasons why he is despised by some in the Labour movement - is his love of political intrigue, gossip and plots.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026

If the person I cared most about in the world despised my efforts, how could I hope that anyone else would like it?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 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 ● 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

“I really started despising law enforcement after that,” he said during an interview.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 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

When his father told him about Ruth, he joined him in despising her, but he felt put upon; felt as though some burden had been given to him and that he didn’t deserve it.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison