despised
Example Sentences
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It’s about understanding that that the removal of a single despised figurehead isn’t enough.
From Salon ● May 8, 2026
That team became the lordly Yankees, an “aesthetically evil” and “universally despised dynasty” that, nonetheless, Mr. Gittlitz grudgingly admits, has a lot of working-class fans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
Hamilton despised those with “no principle but to get money.”
From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 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
How small-minded and hypocritical mortal man was, for even as they despised the enders of life, they loved nature—which, in those days, took every human life ever conceived.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
