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Six example sentences with despise, each labelled with its topic.
Fans in the upper deck despise the rival point guard so loudly that visiting coaches schedule extra timeouts there.
Basketball
Classically trained chefs often despise the microwave, treating it as an appliance beneath anyone who owns a proper pan.
Cooking
Voters who despise both candidates still turned out in record numbers, choosing the one they found less objectionable.
Politics
Mr. Darcy seems to despise the whole village at first, and the novel spends three hundred pages correcting him.
Literature
Some Stoic writers despise luxury so thoroughly that they treat a soft bed as a moral failure.
Philosophy
Players despise the pay-to-win mechanics, and the forums fill with complaints after every new bundle appears.
Gaming
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