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UConn's players could lament that millions of casual sports fans will be despising them tonight.

From Time • Apr. 4, 2011

If he does, then he will be despising the sun which he considers a god.

From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke