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Lisa had despised its hulking box shape and puke-brown cabinet doors, but she loved what the place represented.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 9, 2021

Then an insight hit: Until that moment, I had despised myself for not living the conventional life I had expected since childhood of a healthy, married woman with children.

From Washington Post • Nov. 15, 2019

At his last high school reunion, a man, a former football player whom Alan had despised, said, Alan Clay, you've got a thousand-mile stare.

From The Guardian • Jan. 26, 2013

His tragedy, which his careful revisions and rationalisations cannot conceal, is that he became what he had despised – as Hazlitt put it, "a living and ignominious satire upon himself".

From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2013

As a matter of fact, she had despised him even before the search for the Grail began—yes, despised him, and had determined to throw him over.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White