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Example sentences for: despise

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The Palestinian spin: We held off to avoid scaring Israeli voters, which might have helped re-elect right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom we despise for sabotaging the peace process.
I'll despise Kubrick forever for associating Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, "Singin' in the Rain," and some of the most glorious works of Handel and Purcell with sadomasochism and man's inhumanity to man.
Reporters, whose job is depicting reality, profess to despise spin.
Israelis distrust him because he was in the PLO and his brother is a member of Hamas, while Palestinians despise him for cooperating with their enemy, the Israelis.
In its front-page editorial, the Sun , which used to have a homophobic reputation, claimed that the Brown affair had "set alarm bells ringing"--"[n]ot because people despise gays, or fear them, or wish to pillory them," but because "the public has a right to know how many homosexuals occupy positions of high power."