Sentence examples for thoroughly despised from inspiring English sources

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For most of his active life he thoroughly despised the infantry, "the scum of the earth," he called them, men who died in their thousands to make his victories possible.

All during this time he was wholly dependent on the philanthropy of his father, who was toiling away in "Monte Cristo," and whom, he apprised everyone, he thoroughly despised.

Sardonic, apparently cynical, Harry knows everyone, cuts deals, cultivates connections and is thoroughly despised by the expatriate community as a grifter and, as war approaches, a pro-Japanese turncoat.

It's hard enough, no matter how much one has read, to get one's mind into the habits and patterns of someone so distant, so privileged and so thoroughly despised by history, her head cut off in the Place de la Révolution, which was renamed Concorde only as a gesture of reconciliation.

So the question to ask yourself, if you are a red state Democrat, is "Am I as thoroughly despised by my own base as Terry McAuliffe was by his?" If the answer is no, then you can chill for a few minutes and fret about other things.

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He just despised Occidentalists who despised their own people.

He "plainly despised ritual".

News was rather despised.

Befriends a despised classmate.

Most despised is Dalwood.

Business is still despised in England.

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