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Despised in sentence

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The surprise here is that Lula, a former labor leader who had been on the far left, was widely opposed, if not despised, in business and financial circles.
Thus, however much they despised Bill Clinton, the Republicans were prepared to allow him the glory of being a Middle East peacemaker, believing that any agreement reached with the Palestinians at the 2000 Camp David Summit was in America’s interest.
Social democrats were always despised by communists, and vice versa.
Just about everyone despised this “three-in-one” policy, and people often complained that it created further inconvenience, without reducing time spent on the road.
And, most ironic of all, Israel, a nation-state built by a people despised for their cosmopolitanism, has become a prime symbol of this disturbing trend.
But, despite its shaky economics, the fair-trade movement should not be despised.
Most likely, it will result in a new Tory administration that tightens the screw of austerity further and erects new fences to keep despised foreigners out.
President George W. Bush, for example, despised American reporters who spoke French.
Tocqueville despised the elites of his time for their complacency in the face of the deracinating force of mass democracy.
For too long, we have despised and underestimated him.
He and his followers knew that as long as they remained in Mecca, they would be despised by non-Muslims; their very lives were in danger.
On the contrary, we have to count the cost down to the penny which our rhetoric has despised.”
The invasion of Iraq destroyed a very unpleasant tyranny, but it has inspired a wave of hatred towards the West, even among those who despised Saddam, and has divided the West against itself.
The 2,640-kilometer Durand Line, a British-colonial invention that divided the large Pashtun community when it was established in 1893 as the border between British-led India and Afghanistan, has long been despised and rejected by Afghanistan.
The Right, which despised him, predicted that Mitterrand would be booed out of office.
The Muslim Brotherhood – established in the Egyptian town of Ismailia in 1928 and political Islam’s oldest, best organized, and most widespread proponent – was (and is) despised by both secular Arabs and Arab monarchies.
Today, as low oil prices and Western sanctions bite, he is making them poor and nearly universally despised.
Feelings of being disconnected and despised, however, are powerful emotions, strong enough to twist facts into a dark alternate reality.
People have taken to the streets because they feel they have been humiliated, ignored, and despised for too long by irresponsible, corrupt, and distant political elites.
All those who feared and despised Trump should be reassured by the 2020 election result.
(Ironically, Chinese banknotes feature Mao, who despised capitalism, rather than Deng, the father of Chinese capitalist prosperity.)
In those few moments he believed in advance that the highest and justest of criticisms was going to be pronounced by these very visitors whom he had so despised a moment before.
Dolly was in despair; she hated her husband, despised him, pitied him, made up her mind to divorce him and to refuse; but ended by consenting to sell part of her estate.
Universally despised, as a feeble creature, Julien had adored that old Surgeon-Major who one day ventured to speak to the Mayor on the subject of the plane trees.
There, as in his father's sawmill, he profoundly despised the people with whom he lived, and was hated by them.
He despised himself hideously.
He despised these women, and all tender feelings.
'I should have despised her as a foolish woman if from weakness she had failed to bring off the scene with M. de Renal!
He no longer despised them; he realised that he must have them always before his eyes.
'You and I, at that dinner, will be the only two whose hands are free from blood, but I shall be despised and almost hated, as a bloody and Jacobinical monster, and you will simply be despised as a plebeian who has thrust his way into good society.'
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