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
• Even when a wide swath of the NFL fan base despises this guy?
  — Peter King, SI.com, 27 Sep. 2017
• Look no further than the videos to see that those crowds despise him.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Alaska Dispatch News, 29 June 2017
• 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
• He was known to despise Kennedy and his brother Robert.
  — Jefferson Morley, Newsweek, 21 June 2017
• 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
• No mention from him of the reasons why Aussies might despise him.
  — Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
• And today’s high 10-year yield means bonds are despised right now.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Trudeau despises Poilievre, sees him as a threat to the Canada his father built.
  — Stephen Maher, TIME, 7 Jan. 2025
• Charles Rangel was a left-wing congressman from New York, and despised Bush.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Oct. 2023
• Surely the first thing a Juve fan learns is to despise Inter, and this kid’s parents must have taught him well.
  — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• This is nothing to cheer about, even for those who despise the crypto sector.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
• Over the course of 35 years, audiences around the world have come to love and despise many different Ben Stillers.
  — Sean Malin, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
• Those outside an hour’s drive to Fayetteville despised him for it.
  — Eric Bolin, ajc, 23 Nov. 2017
• When the newspaper of record does this, it is cheered by all those who despise Donald Trump.
  — Arkansas Online, 14 Dec. 2020
• Hart despises him and his blundering height, despises the hokey sentimentality of Oklahoma!
  — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 18 Feb. 2025