How to Use despise in a Sentence

despise

verb

• She was despised as a hypocrite.
• I despise anchovies on pizza, and I refuse to eat them!
• The man abhors them the same way the Longhorns despise the Sooners.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 11 Apr. 2020
• But Brown despises the sight of Davis when its time to work.
  — J.l. Kirven, Detroit Free Press, 13 July 2019
• The three subjects despise the film and want nothing to do with it.
  — Ben Sales, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Nov. 2020
• Today the world is learning to fear us and to despise us.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 21 July 2019
• The couple first met in 2012 on the set of the sci-fi drama Her, but Phoenix thought Mara despised him.
  — Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2023
• Revered in Tehran, he was despised throughout much of the region.
  — Time, 3 Jan. 2020
• Meanwhile, the smug parishioners despise the poor folks around their fine church.
  — Celia Storey, Arkansas Online, 24 May 2021
• There’s just one problem: Most of the United Kingdom seems to despise the plan.
  — Jen Kirby, Vox, 27 Nov. 2018
• But for now, the Force is with those who despise overwhelming crowds.
  — Scott Craven, azcentral, 3 July 2019
• Even the Blues Brothers had enough moral sense to despise Illinois Nazis.
  — Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 12 Dec. 2022
• The crimes were denied, the murders hidden, the survivors judged and despised.
  — Ivan Quintanilla, National Geographic, 22 June 2019
• The players despise you, the fans pour beer all over your clothes, and the real announcers up in the booth look down on you.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022
• The event that most male gymnasts despise is his calling card.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2021
• Golf represents a half-dozen things I was raised to despise.
  — Zach Baron, GQ, 2 July 2018
• Whether those programs despise Harbaugh or not isn't the point.
  — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2018
• Charles Rangel was a left-wing congressman from New York, and despised Bush.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Oct. 2023
• This is nothing to cheer about, even for those who despise the crypto sector.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
• When the newspaper of record does this, it is cheered by all those who despise Donald Trump.
  — Arkansas Online, 14 Dec. 2020
• He was liked by some players, for sure, but despised by others.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
• So Allen despises Colorado State, and doesn’t care who knows it.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 20 Nov. 2019
• Most Americans despise turning their clocks an hour forward in the spring and an hour back in the fall, polls show.
  — Dave Goldiner New York Daily News (tns), al, 26 July 2022
• Most everyone who saw it at the Paris Salon of 1865 despised it, for the subject or the technique or both.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2023
• Some gun owners despise any form of locking up their guns.
  — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 25 Jan. 2021
• As for sides, the creamed corn—an adult take on a childhood cafeteria dish the chef despised—is how one rights a culinary wrong.
  — Kayla Stewart, Bon Appétit, 23 Feb. 2024
• Because what no one knows is that the two of them had a fling back in Season 1 and have despised each other ever since.
  — USA TODAY, 22 July 2023
• Americans despise high gas prices, and -- fair or not -- tend to blame them on whoever is in the White House.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 19 Oct. 2021
• The internet is filled with reports of actors who despise each other.
  — Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 16 July 2024
• The women from Kirov, just over 500 miles east of Moscow, embody virtuous traditional values, despise the West and serve Russia.
  — Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 30 July 2024

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024