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• v  look down on with disdain
• s  treated with contempt

• A late spasm of royalism hardly explains it, even in Britain, for many true British monarchists despised her for cheapening the royal institution by behaving more like a movie star .
• The Pope's chief enforcer of doctrine and morals, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger is the most powerful prince of the Church and one of the most despised.
• Little Louie, half starved, battled anti-Semitic bullies and helped his father whom he despised as much as he adored his mother.

• contemn
• despise
• scorn
• disdain
• detested
• hated
• scorned

News & Articles

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• Help is available for dealing with suicide
  Once upon a time there was a young man who had everything — a loving family, great friends, awesome teachers and so much more. As he grew into his teenage years, his friends started making new friends, his parents got a divorce and he despised his teachers. Life just didn’t seem so great after all.
  June 21, 2013 - The Wenatchee World
• Why Everyone Hates The ESPN Show 'First Take' In A Single Screenshot
  ESPN's day-time show First Take is universally despised among sports bloggers and media commentators. The show involves two talking ends — Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless — arguing about sports in extreme terms, often disingenuously.
  June 18, 2013 - Business Insider
• Contrarian Gold Stocks 2
  Successful investing requires buying low before later selling high. And stock prices are the lowest when they are the most deeply out of favor. That perfectly describes gold miners’ stocks these days, this sector is loathed and despised after a horrendous year so far.
  June 17, 2013 - GoldSeek.com

Quotes

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• Mike Krzyzewski in CNN
  It's very juvenile,Krzyzewski said when asked about it. "We have great kids. They go to school. They graduate. If we're going to be despised or hated because we go to school and we want to win, you know what? That's your problem."
• Alex Salmond in International Herald Tribune
  Blair is nowhere liked. He's despised, in fact,Salmond told The Associated Press in Selkirk, Scotland. "It's one of the factors."
• Barry McCaffrey in ArmyTimes.com
  In the land they left behind, the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki "has little credibility among the Shia populations from which it emerged," writes McCaffrey. "It is despised by the Sunni as a Persian surrogate. It is...