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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:

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.
Reporters, whose job is depicting reality, profess to despise spin.
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."
But what Asia's newfound critics once loved, they now despise.
When your child gets sick, you naturally despise the frugality that made your HMO so attractive when you subscribed.