despised

Example Sentences

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

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 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 • Mar. 13, 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

Meghan might even consider this a badge of honor, since it means she joins the ranks of Rachael Ray, Giada De Laurentiis, Sandra Lee and Martha Stewart in the gallery of despised lifestyle mavens.

From Salon • Aug. 27, 2025

Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and—no matter how much we despised ourselves for it—unable quite to let each other go.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro