Example Sentences

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“He has said everything and its opposite, he has despised many people,” Ms. Saidj said, adding Mr. Macron had acted like “a king.”

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2022

No one has despised Big Pharma for as long as Dr. Angell has.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2018

He has despised Gawker Media since its site Valleywag outed him as gay in 2007.

From Slate • May 26, 2016

He has despised me, and without reason––because I presumed to love your mother, lad, against his arrogant will.

From The Eye of Dread by Erskine, Payne

This sweet Lamb, our Way, has despised the world, with all its luxuries and dignity, and has hated vice and loved virtue.

From Letters of Catherine Benincasa by Catherine, of Siena, Saint