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The ease with which he gave up has mortified many Arabs, even among those who despise him.

I love criticism, but I despise ignorance.

So prevalent are the warbloggers that they now have awards, just like the weak-kneed Hollywood liberals most of them despise.

The two bombings were blamed on Islamic militants who despise Gen.

She appears to despise him, yet ends up taking him into her bed and comforting him after a nightmare.

The other owners despise his incessant two-bit hustling, his reckless and rude micromanaging.

I thought of my last "great love" for the unattainable Waldo, who wrote me from a battleship in the Pacific, "Shall I make a terrible confession to you?I despise all women." Though cramped and roach-ridden, the kitchen was not to be despised.

The most worrying development of the past week was not the death of a few dozen American soldiers, but rather the fact that, in some cities, Sunni and Shiite groups, which are supposed to despise each other, have banded together to fight the Americans.

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