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“It’s impossible. . . . If I do that, my kids, my grandkids would despise me. My wife will despise me.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 13, 2026

Yes, though analog lovers will despise it, there are no gauges here.

From Forbes Jan. 9, 2012

The problem with GymPact is that the more successful it is, the less revenue it generates, and the more revenue it generates, the more customers will despise it.

From Slate Jan. 3, 2012

The word melodrama has become code for something the art-house crowd will despise.

From New York Times Jun. 12, 2010

“Another minute, and she will despise me for a hypocrite,” thought I; and an impulse of fury against Reed, Brocklehurst, and Co. bounded in my pulses at the conviction.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë