Sentence examples for despise something from inspiring English sources

It's unfortunate: if you really despise something that much, it's worth finding out about it.

But 20 years is a long time to despise something that most other people claim to enjoy, and the release of a new DVD box set - John Hughes High School Year Book: Sixteen Candles/Weird Science/The Breakfast Club - gave me a good excuse to revisit my old nemesis and find out if one of us had changed.

It's more honourable to be up front about how you feel than it is to secretly despise something you're doing.

It is a matter of loving, cherishing, holding dear, or, negatively, hating or despising something, where these attitudes inherently involve tendencies to act (LJP 23 27).

And so we have these page-long scraps of thought and reflection (the editor seems to have removed most of the shorter ones, some of which don't even make it to sentence-length) which find in rootless modern urban existence not something to be despised but something to be celebrated with indulgent melancholy.

He also conceded that recent controversies involving "idiots" in the party had damaged the party and there were many people who now "despised" UKIP, something he found hurtful.

But that just means we've got better at something we never wanted to do, something we despise doing.

You can take it light or you can take it heavy, but the sheer deliquescence of the McCain campaign in the closing days has been something to pity as well as something to despise.

Everyone saw in it something to despise.

Habib, a wealthy businessman raised as a Muslim, was taught to despise the African religions, something that now angers him.

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