"Despise".

I really do struggle with the idea that you could harbour such strong negative emotions towards paid charity fundraisers. They're hardly the devil incarnate, y'know. Such ire says far more about the despiser than the despisee.

Dave H, it is easy to say no. They congregate at the end of my street and I get nobbled by them all the time. I just tell them I'm not interested and they generally stop. It they don't stop, I tell them to stop. Problem solved.

To be honest, they're mostly friendly, slightly overenthusiastic kids doing their best to carry out a job that tends to bring out the worst in people who should probable know better. I wouldn't do it because I wouldn't want the abuse. But then I'm not desperate enough to need the job. It's actually people like Shelter and the NSPCC and the rest that anyone so angered by them that they feel the need to act should approach. Talk to the organ grinder rather than taking potshots at the monkeys...

And 'chuggers' is a shit term for them. They're not actually muggers, you know. They don't try to frighten you, threaten you with violence, wave knives at you or anything like that.