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Example sentences for: despise

How can you use “despise” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

But now that a Democratic president whom they despise has led the nation into war, GOP leaders have adopted the arguments of the counterculture.
The reader is led to despise one character because of his bad taste in neckties, but not to hold racism and homophobia against another.
Neo-Isolationists oppose interventions abroad because they despise Bill Clinton and believe that American culture is debased.
Clinton's bad behavior throughout the Flytrap scandal--especially his smug refusal to confess to perjury during the impeachment proceedings--made him easy to despise.
Does she love him, despise him, or both?