How To Use Detest In A Sentence

It's a reductive attitude that sells Scotland short and it's one I detest.
En effet, je deteste mariage de convenance, mauvaise honte et mauvais sujet. My Personal Ode written in French and American English Translation
To use a phrase I detest just 4 fun - repeat and rinse. The Guardian World News
She stamped her foot for a final emphasis, but she was aware of her words all having fallen effectless, like blows dealt some detestable thing in a dream. The Coast of Bohemia
I detest the cult of body fascism, the more so since I live in its global capital.

This situation was detestably rectified, as could be clearly seen in face as she jarred forward.
She has been unfairly maligned as being soft on apartheid, which she detested. Times, Sunday Times
Furthermore democratic socialism was feared and detested by doctrinaire Marxists because it offered planning in conjunction with freedom.
on that evening I thought Michael's hair was more of a mess than ever and I detested the way he underlined the mess by sporting sideboards. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
I loathe AND detest the game - and that's all it is, kids, just a silly game.
I know you detest them; hate doesn't do justice to how you must feel, but you have to calm down.
I felt I was a detestable person and I hated myself and had all the feelings of failure.
They loathe tinsel, detest office parties and abhor rum balls of all kinds.
He was often unable to resist her girlish charms and detested the thought of making the poor child work more than she should.
Suppose a man to have been trained in the palestra and to be a skilful boxer-he in the fulness of his strength goes and strikes his father or mother or one of his familiars or friends; but that is no reason why the trainers or fencing-masters should be held in detestation or banished from the city-surely not. Plato's Gorgias - Selected Moments
Apol. xxxv., “publici hostes”; xxxvii., “hostes maluistis vocare generis humani Christianos” (you prefer to call Christians the enemies of the human race); Minuc., x., “pravae religionis obscuritas”; viii., “homines deploratae, inlicitae ac desperatae factionis” (reprobate characters, belonging to an unlawful and desperate faction); “plebs profanae coniurationis”; ix., “sacraria taeterrima impiae citionis” (abominable shrines of an impious assembly); “eruenda et execranda consensio” (a confederacy to be rooted out and detested). The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
'Even before dying, my father sensed that I was going to spend his money on all the things he most detested in life, down to the last centimo.' The Shadow of the Wind
But today we're nonplused by the phenomenon that a good number of students, rather than enjoying the sublime happiness supposed to be provided by education, do not hide their detestation for it.
By contrast, the Trades Union Congress, driven by detestation for fascism, was more robust.
For her father's comfort, noting the sad wistful eyes that watched her coming in and going out, she had resigned herself to spend long melancholy hours within doors, reading aloud till Sir John fell asleep, playing backgammon -- a game she detested worse even than shove-halfpenny, which latter primitive game they played sometimes on the shovel-board in the hall. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger
I do not speak from personal experience, for I detest the sweet, cloying stuff; but it occasionally fell to my lot to guide down-stairs the uncertain footsteps of some ventripotent Kommerzien-Rath, or even of Mr. Over-Inspector of Railways himself, both temporarily incapacitated by injudicious indulgence in Swedish Punch. The Days Before Yesterday
He came: he found the islanders beside themselves at this unwelcome resurrection of the dead and the detested; he was shown, as adminicular of testimony, the traveller’s uncouth and thick-soled boots; he argued, and finding argument unavailing, consented to enter the room and examine with his own eyes the sleeping Pict. Records of a Family of Engineers
Oh! he was spiteful, acrid, savage; and, as a natural consequence, detestably ugly. Villette
She detested Mrs Deacon, who was like a sterner, more forthright edition of Mrs Martin.
I loathe AND detest the game - and that's all it is, kids, just a silly game.
Henceforth the mountaineer becomes transformed into a champion of humanity, hunting the wicked bearded steinbock in all corners; especially through the cabinet of those dark men who decree the taxes detested in Tyrol. Vittoria — Volume 5
He would show, as Ibsen shows, and with an equal lack of malice prepense, various detestable features which the mask of good manners had concealed. Henrik Ibsen
Celebrate our Australianness by showing our usual mistrustful, self-deprecating, egalitarian, good-natured detestation of all such symbols of overt self-glorification.
Jibbing, or "balking" as the Americans term it, is a detestable vice. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
Elites always detest gifted and nimble outsiders.
Hafner and Ardea have laid bare two detestable souls, the one of an infamous usurer, half German, half Dutch; the other of a degraded nobleman, in whom is revived some ancient 'condottiere'. The French Immortals Series — Complete
It is not up to you, O non-scumbag Republican, to be responsible for their hate-mongering, lie-spreading, and all-around ultra-detestableness, which is a word my MS Word program seems to think actually exists. Ellis Weiner: An Open Letter to Republicans
The goldfinches chittered and sang like drunken canaries and once in a thunderstorm a barred owl blundered into that fake crystal chandelier she had always detested.
In Cuba we detested marching, uniforms and weapons, because for us we were always the symbols of oppression and abuse, symbols of privilege, symbols of outrate. CASTRO ADDRESS ON 1 MAY 1960
Schoolchildren, with the natural moral sense of the young, have always detested "clypes".
Meanwhile, those who detest cricket - and their number is legion - must be wondering whether a six-week exile is the only respite.
With Bush and company in the Nixonian zone of detestability, the Bushies tell us really it’s God, history, or Gen. David Petraeus — anything that will keep the Bush regime from being cast as the voice of its own administration — that now decides. Decider Decides Not to Decide
I'm feeling pretty slothful and despondent today, so I've took the lazy option of filling a bit of blogspace by copying down one of those questionnaires that I so detest.
The evening came to an end at last, but Kate had yet to be handed downstairs by the detested Sir Mulberry; and so skilfully were the manoeuvres of Messrs Pyke and Pluck conducted, that she and the baronet were the last of the party, and were even — without an appearance of effort or design — left at some little distance behind. Nicholas Nickleby
And about Godwin and Evans hovered an air of conspiracy they shared with the detestable Chambers. THE LAST RAVEN
All of you that take the time to be so pompous and detestably smug about this and the like are inept . Think Progress » Ted Haggard on homosexuality:
Her sister is the symbol of all that is detestable, damnable and loathsome.
The story concerns a dissolute decadent who is enchanted with his beloved, Alicia's, form, but who detests what he considers to be the frivolity and shallowness of her personality.
He also criticized the European Union for being a toy for political elites and civil servants, detested by the people for its largeness of scale, bureaucracy and megalomania.
In short, in a country that detests the very idea of reform, the room for manoeuvre is virtually zero.
They're detestable creatures, certainly, but it's hard not to have a sneaking admiration for them.
Nick Stahl does a good job portraying Bobby as a vicious, detestable bully (with perhaps just a hint of reptilian charisma).
Since the days of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, who were alleged to have detested each other, the media have revelled in stories of spats, tiffs and rows between rival Hollywood stars.
We might hate queue jumpers, but we also detest hypocrites and bludgers.
But the album is so perfectly calibrated to ensure big sales that it's difficult not to straight out detest the record.
It is what I call selfishness, and selfishness is a most detestable thing, especially to any one of my temperament, for I am well known for my sympathetic nature. The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. Henry Ward Beecher
On her date, her boyfriend took her to see the film Gladiator which she detested.
Burnett to restrain the roving eyes of the congregation and make gallants better attend to their devotions; all these, in addition to the memorial slabs and tablets, and weeping angels over cinereal urns, tend to give the church that air of ugliness and comfort which the modern churchman detests. She and I, Volume 1
Now while many people are afraid of mice, they can absolutely hate and detest rats!
I absolutely detest gnomes and the majority of people living in the big houses would not want gnomes in their gardens either.
And given the attempt by the footballer's lawyers to restrict the sales of Rooney's Gold, the loathsome book about his life and times written by the equally feisty BBC hack John Sweeney, Wayne might also reasonably ask why, when the frighteners have been put on WHSmith and Waterstone's, his own employers – Manchester United – are selling it on the club's official website United Direct: £16.99 for the hardback he detests. Diary
The price cannot depend on whether investors detest risk or could not care a jot. Principles of Corporate Finance
It's a process members detest, which is why many have wished Rangel would resign, getting them off the hook for having to judge their colleague. NPR Topics: News
These and similarly insulting fatuities are the language of a politician who detests political generalities, works mostly by innocent intuition and who is celebrated by the masses.
The colonist detested him for his exactions, while his soldiery were a scourge to every district they were quartered upon. The Story of Ireland
Roderigo's election that "the Papacy has been sold by simony and a thousand rascalities, which is a thing ignominious and detestable. The Life of Cesare Borgia
What he offers us, with driving energy, is a bluff, dirty-minded NCO who is filled with a rancourous, destructive negativity that leads him to detest Othello for his "free and open nature" and to loathe Cassio for the simple reason "he hath a daily beauty in his life that makes me ugly. Othello – review
This supposed "hardness" -- I detest these vague phrases, but one knows what is meant -- of the Rationalist temper is one of the strangest myths the clergy have invented. The War and the Churches
Why did so many conservatives see the president not simply as a detested opponent but as a cheater, a deceiver, a beguiler, and a rogue?
There is a difference between hating something and detesting it.
And while lots of prototypically liberal Americans detested and loathed Bush with a ferocious passion, the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation were, in fact, just the next “act” in a multi-act drama spanning back to World War I and the British Empire. Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Batman in the Real World
He wavered and doubted, and to his confidants, with whom he could bluster and talk big, he expressed in no measured terms his detestation of Liberal principles, and especially of Catholic Emancipation. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3)
All the King's Men let its protagonist, a charismatic and power hungry politician who loses all restraint, grow into his detestability, and Willy Stark devolves into the mire of corruption gracelessly. DVD Times
These and similarly insulting fatuities are the language of a politician who detests political generalities, works mostly by innocent intuition and who is celebrated by the masses.
_Keeling's_ wife is worthy of a place in the author's long gallery of woolly-witted matrons; while in _Silverdale_ he has given a study of clerical futility and egotism almost savage in its detestability, a portrait at which one laughs and shudders together. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 28, 1917
You cannot attack someone with so much obvious detestably for them then absolve yourself by saying “Oh, yeah, but I forgive them.” Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » Kay Granger Feeling the Heat
I detest violence but for once, whilst I still didn't agree with it I could understand it.
George Bush slank out of office as the most detested president in American history. Right or Left Media Bias?
Blowing up the Saudi ambassador in Washington would be an appealing counterstroke against the two foreign forces that Khamenei detests most. Iran's Act of War
The heterogeneous triflings which now, I am very sorry to say, occupy so much of our time, will be neglected; fashion's votaries will silently fall off; dishonest exertions for rank in society will be scorned; extravagance in toilet will be detested; that meager and worthless pride of station will be forgotten; the honest earnings of dependents will be paid; popular demagogues crushed; impostors unpatronized; true genius sincerely encouraged; and, above all, pawned integrity redeemed! History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
As much I detest this president, I hope people have more class than the far left wing did in booing bush. remember you are cheering the "presidency" not the president. Obama will take to mound for presidential tradition
Richard Haryson (1535) was fain to confess, in the deed of surrender, that the monks had, “under the shadow of their rule, vainly detestably, and ungodlily devoured their yearly revenues in continual ingurgitations of their carrion bodies, and in support of their over voluptuous and carnal appetites.” {243b} We cannot but suspect that such language was that of their enemies, put into their mouths, when resistance was no longer possible. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
Meanwhile, the thoroughly detestable Jordan - who's as warm as a Siberian winter and as human as the Megatron - has remained a lifelong twiglet with apparently effortless ease. Archive 2009-06-01
Or, they rent their clothes, as if he had spoken blasphemy; and threw dust into the air, in detestation of it; or signifying how ready they were to throw stones at Paul, if the chief captain would have permitted them. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
The haplessly inept former Alaska governor and VP candidate is a media hot ticket item; a multi-millionaire; and a rallying point for millions of Christian fundamentalist, rightside zanies and disgruntled GOP conservatives who detest Obama's policies. Earl Ofari Hutchinson: The Beck Bash Has Worked Wonders -- for Beck
But if you go downtown, Wolf, the detestation of what you see in these pictures is still so evident and it will be so for quite some time.
We might hate queue jumpers, but we also detest hypocrites and bludgers.
The common “stinkhorn,” extremely common in some districts of England, and obtruding on the notice of every one from its detestable odour. The Land of Midian
And it would lead to the kind of detestation that would include building debris, coffins, sewage, a giant stagnation pound, maybe a million people homeless. CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2005
Rather than regarding homosexual practice with "abhorrence" and "detestation" -- as did George Washington and most everyone until recent years -- Obama has euphemistically vowed to ChronWatch - Articles
Briggs would be half-way through his window dressing, and Gosling, the apprentice, busy, with a chair turned down over the counter and his ears very red, trying to roll a piece of huckaback — only those who have rolled pieces of huckaback know quite how detestable huckaback is to roll — and the shop would be dusty and, perhaps, the governor about and snappy. The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll
He detested the Victorian ideal of love, with the doves and rosy-cheeked cherubs and gossamer and lace.
I\'d use the word detest, but then I might be accused by apologists like Fred Barnes of harboring an irrational hatred of Bush. Is it Rational to Hate George Bush?
And they have lately become very vocal about their detestation of ordinary people.
Guer-mantes declared that she had always detested Empire style; that meant, she detested it now, which was true, because she followed the fashions though not closely. Time Regained
At last Don Quixote's end came, after he had received all the sacraments, and had in full and forcible terms exprest his detestation of books of chivalry. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II.
Nevertheless it is plausibly urged that, as young ladies (_Mädchen_) are, to mankind, precisely the most delightful in those years; so young gentlemen (_Bübchen_) do then attain their maximum of detestability. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
He's 38, unmarried and stuck in a very deep rut also inhabited by his nagging, humourless girlfriend Ruth and a cat he detests.
American is lavish, hates to stint, detests being a "piker", says, "Oh, what's the difference; it will all be the same in a hundred years," but kicks himself mentally afterwards. The Nervous Housewife
He was specially detested by the Extreme Left, whose chief, Gambetta, he styled a _fou furieux_. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
He detests the amorality of his C.I.A. control.
One thing that Bertie detested was rice and curry, so it happened that he alone partook of an inviting omelet. THE TERRIBLE SOLOMONS
Cursed: So wicked and detestable as to deserve to be cursed.
He combined cultural Englishness with political cosmopolitanism, and detested political personality cults while sedulously cultivating a public image of himself.
Like all the French, she had spoken of them - of most of them, at any rate, with detestation. DISPLACED PERSON
This product consists of clay pellets impregnated with a blend of citronella oils which cats detest.
I regret this, as the inventor will be the object of pressing solicitations, and as Engineer Serko will employ every means in his power to obtain the composition of the explosive and deflagrator, of which he will make such detestable use during future piratical exploits.
To suggest that critical gender studies is correcting an imbalance in favour of women is either shockingly ignorant or detestably insulting. Women’s studies vs critical gender studies « Love | Peace | Ohana
Jazzers detested the skifflers, who tended to look down their tea-chest basses at the folkies, often with good reason. Times, Sunday Times
To lose my temper with Charley, particularly when he was trying so hard to be kind to me, was detestable behaviour. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
But what I detest is the attitude you display in your responses … …. patronising and belittling. All We Ever Wanted Was Everything « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
He cuts straight to the quick, opening his unblushing diary of detestation with this: ‘I hate him.’
Rather than regarding homosexual practice with "abhorrence" and "detestation" - as did George Washington and most everyone until recent years - Obama has euphemistically vowed to Americans For Truth
Nay, we not only behaved as having no concern for him, but as loathing him, and having him in detestation. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
I detest recitative in its baroque continuo form.
As to the question of hierarchy, it’s not directly based on the detestableness that I perceive, but the degree it is unwise for impressionable minds to blindly imitate, combined with those ideas that lack a rationally-based rationale so to speak... which, in turn, leads to the “detestableness”. The Volokh Conspiracy » Privacy Law and Ethics Questions:
Allen's characters, both the admirable ones and the detestable ones, are intensely alive, and we know this by their distinctive voices.
Frege disliked the move to democracy, and detested it even more as the socialists gained power.
They seemed to be looking for conformity, but they detested sameness.
She was no dog, certainly, and in fact her high cheekbones and widely spaced greenish eyes and rather full lips and her svelteness and her prodigious heightshe was easily five-ten, almost as tall as Tristanqualified her as hot, a term that Tristan detested but also knew applied in this case, at least where other guys would be concerned. Excerpt: The Dart League King by Keith Morris
Dixon liked and revered him for his air of detesting everything that presented itself to his senses, and of not meaning to let this detestation become staled by custom.
Aperture/The Paul Strand Archive "Cristo with Thorns, Huexotla, 1933" Mr. Strand was reading Marx at this time, and considered his work "a criticism of capitalism a system I detest," so all the portraits are of peasants and tend to valorize them. Capturing Three Worlds Apart
They detest the idea of militaristic “hard power.” Archive 2006-03-01
They were only the second generation to experience compulsory elementary education and mostly they detested it. Times, Sunday Times
Of all traitors they are the most aggravatedly criminal; of all villains, they are the most infamous and detestable. History of the United States
One website claims 3% of people detest him. Times, Sunday Times
He contended that, as a loyal servant of the crown, he had been honor-bound to rid the country of a detestable tyrant who had perverted French royal institutions.
Blanch wrote: ‘What detestable daubs his pictures are to be sure.’
Manque pu qu'a me trouver un garde du corps parce que je vis dans une ville de caille qui detestent cette salle de concert parce que principalement dédiée au rock, metal, punk, ... Pinku-tk Diary Entry
Benjamin Latrobe, the “Father of American Architecture” who designed the U.S. Capitol, saw whites performing the Virginia Jig and called it “the excess of detestability.” A Renegade History of the United States
Thus, the EU will bring no improvement to road safety and, as it takes its greater role in projecting road safety myths, and progressively assumes responsibility for speed enforcement standards, we can transfer our detestation from the imbeciles who are at present destroying road safety, and direct it at the EU. They know not what they do
Jack is back and wants to be a father to Freddie, but shows no interest in Natalie, who detests the word platonic because she loves Jack. Mommy by Mistake-Rowan Coleman « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
In later times the vizir was a black slave of Ghaleb, and much detested for his pride and despotic conduct. Travels in Arabia
Some shoppers detest them intensely, while millions will use them but can't be bothered to claim the benefits.
`Jacquie's attitude to Hubert had been through the whole range from a crush to detestation. DISPLACED PERSON
But the really amazing thing is that so many others in the free world not only do not agree but loathe and detest this message and its messengers.
I mean she named her dang CD B. L.O.G, cuz she detest them! 'Real Housewives of Atlanta' recap: Hang in there, Kandi | EW.com
She loathed and detested'social science '. Times, Sunday Times
By and large, I hate - perhaps I should add "detest" - these Wall Street Forbes.com: News
And about Godwin and Evans hovered an air of conspiracy they shared with the detestable Chambers. THE LAST RAVEN
During this compulsatory voyage, he describes himself as affected with the most horrible sea sickness; and here his representation of a person labouring under that detestable malady was so accurate, that I almost fancied myself again in the cockpit of the Actæon, and all the terrors of the voyage across the Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833
Yes, a scofflaw is a lawbreaker, and that's a bad thing to be, but the word doesn't really make you detest scofflaws, which is what the person seeking the word wanted. Sniglets and Slithy Toves
Augustine was preaching on the duty his congregation had to conform with God's word: they must abstain from detestable pagan practices, divination, astrology, haruspication, and the like.
I've had it with all you unreliable, inconsistent, and detestable blockheads.
I thoroughly detest writing letters to her.
He contended that, as a loyal servant of the crown, he had been honor-bound to rid the country of a detestable tyrant who had perverted French royal institutions.
Seriously, that's the claim that the detestable "kos", AKA Markos Moulitsas, made today. long enough not to make fun of him directly. The Sundries Shack
She detests politicians
Yesterday's set of exquisitely correct opinions concluded with a statement about his gut-wrenching detestation of war.
Yesterday's set of exquisitely correct opinions concluded with a statement about his gut-wrenching detestation of war.
But physicists are a law-abiding bunch, and detest this idea. Times, Sunday Times
Car alarms are the most detested noise, followed by folks arguing, dogs barking, loud music, and banging doors.
Of songs, the Star-Spangled Banner, America, Marseillaise, and all moral and soul-stirring songs, but wishy-washy hymns are my detestation. The Varieties of Religious Experience
Stalin detested the monument and had it demolished.
The most vulnerable members of our society fall victim to the repulsive and detestable warlords and gang masters who conceal their depraved activity behind closed doors.
‘If we do have to take military action, we do so in the sure knowledge that we are removing one of the most barbarous and detestable regimes in modern political history,’ he said.
Howard, love him or detest him, has earned respect as a leader with incredible staying power, and dogged consistency over the years.
But it also seems that, if you look to those who tend to dislike him, you very quickly find those who positively detest him.
But Mr. Houghton had fought in the First World War alongside both Americans and French, and had come - by who knows what illogic? - to a settled detestation of both countries.
Although he detested journalism his Johnsonian manner and compelling character established him as one of Fleet Street's most charismatic figures.
You, all the while, in cities of exile, in that exile that was your detested and chosen instrument, the weapon of your craft, erected your pathless labyrinths, infinitesmal and infinite, wondrously paltry, more populous than history. Ulysses, Ulysses, soaring through all the galaxies
My wife is not here today and the reason she is not here today is because I detest hare coursing. The Sun
You would plunge me into a slime pit so that even my clothes would detest me.
Him the revolting spectacle of His children detesting, anathematizing, persecuting and massacring one another by way of argument? A Philosophical Dictionary
Today's evangelical right detests that tradition and seeks nothing short of a state-sponsored religion.
In reprobating this detestable school, we certainly have no hope that our remarks will reform the French novelism of the day; but we call on the critical press of England to take up the rational and righteous task of reforming our own. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847
This difference between the persons to whom Heaven, according to Orpheus, has granted "the hour of delight," [67] and those whom it has condemned to the hour of detestableness, being, as I have just said, of all times and nations, -- it is an interior and more delicate difference which we are examining in the gift of _Christian_ as distinguished from unchristian, song. On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
All could unite in detestation of the Government of the Republic, its weakness, its lack of spirit, its economic failure. DARE CALL IT TREASON
No one moaned louder than Lydia, who detested what she considered ` gofer " jobs. LEO: STAGE FRIGHT
The chronicler, however, who tells the story, considers the conduct of the monks of St. Albans in sending spurious relics was "pious," while the behaviour of the monks of Ely was "detestable and disgraceful" -- but then the chronicler was a monk of St. Albans. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey
A name more thoroughly detested is not to be found in the vocabulary of American politics, " thundered Georgia's Tom Watson, vice-presidential nominee for the upstart "People's Party" in 1896.
Octave de Malivert unites varieties of detestableness in a way which might be interesting if (to speak with only apparent flippancy) it were made so. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
He loves guns, one of you detests them, the other dislikes them.
Bologna in Italy, anno 1504, there was such a fearful earthquake about eleven o'clock in the night (as [2155] Beroaldus in his book de terrae motu, hath commended to posterity) that all the city trembled, the people thought the world was at an end, actum de mortalibus, such a fearful noise, it made such a detestable smell, the inhabitants were infinitely affrighted, and some ran mad. Anatomy of Melancholy
To the credit of the class, however, to which they belong, such persons are not so numerous as formerly, and to the still greater honor of the peasantry be it said, the devil himself is not hated with half the detestation which is borne them. Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
They are the detestation of the Trout bottom-angler, constantly nibbling away his bait, and tantalising him with vain hopes of a bite.
What a refreshing change it is to experience a service person that does not detest his or her job.
There are several slangy / derogatory expressions in English that I really detest and would never use.
Desire reversed to detestation like a rubber glove turned inside out. THE SHIPPING NEWS
The anomaly, to reprise, is that Hitler today is detested for his human-rights violations, ie, the Holocaust. The Hitler Anomaly « Isegoria
When the frost came to kill the detestable stegomyia, the poisonous striped mosquito, and the fever was finally routed, Sophie Wright was face to face with ruin. My beloved South,
In that fatal list of monarchs one is reduced to apologizing for a Tiberius, who only attained thorough detestableness toward the close of his life; and for a Claudius, who was only eccentric, blundering, and badly advised. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II.
Now note three things: (a) Cecil Winwood was so detested by his fellow convicts that they would not have permitted him to bet an ounce of Bull Durham on a bedbug race — and bedbug racing was a great sport with the convicts; (b) I was the dog that had been given a bad name; (c) for his frame-up, Cecil Winwood needed the dogs with bad names, the lifetimers, the desperate ones, the incorrigibles. Chapter 2
I abhor psalm-singers, I hate priors, I execrate heretics, but I should detest yet more any one who should maintain the contrary. Les Miserables
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
But she called it his "den", and Sabre loathed and detested the word den as applied to a room a man specially inhabits. If Winter Comes
However, many of his fellow countrymen detested him with just as much passion.
We know we harbor the same malignancy and malice, the same greed and injustice that we detest in others.
The captain had, also, during his very short visit, the satisfaction of observing that the inhabitants of Coron entertained the most serious apprehensions from the French armament, and expressed the greatest possible detestation and abhorrence of that people. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1
Behind this mentality lies the progressive lobby's detestation of nationhood and Orwellian aspiration to world government.
I detest and loathe and despise and abore and abominate her Dear Anjali
Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. Titanic 3D Coming Spring 2012? Plans for a Possible Avatar Extended Cut Theatrical Rerelease? | /Film
Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. Chapter 10
It was galling to have to apologize to a man she detested.
No proceedings were therefore brought against the high-ranking army officers so cordially detested by the intellectuals.
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
Fleury, in the strange jargon of the day, as "_the fosterer of a swarm of bad citizens, who were nourished in the anticivic prejudices_ de l'ancien régime, _and fostered in the most detestable superstitions, in defiance of the law_. Tales and Novels — Volume 06
The thing is, is not cowardly, but profoundly and detestably wicked.
All terrorist crime is detestable, whoever the victims.
I have sent our folks out to gather fruit at a venture: and now this misery will soon be ended with his illness; driven away by deluges of lemonade, I think, made in defiance of wasps, flies, and a kind of volant beetle, wonderfully beautiful and very pertinacious in his attacks; and who makes dreadful depredations on my sugar and currant-jelly, so necessary on this occasion of illness, and so attractive to all these detestable inhabitants of a place so lovely. Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I
Kate saw her cousin Dianna smile at this much needed telling-off of their mutually detested relation.
And now, when many of its previous supporters have abandoned it in favour of implied rights theory, I find myself hating it just as much as ever, with a cold, dismissive detestation.
What nettled Bateman most about an unauthorized edition of prints of his work was that the artwork was sold at Sears: "That's the part I detest," he said. Daniel Grant: Copyright Infringers Target Wildlife Artists
The woman was detestably sensible, opinionated, and outspoken and her son trusted her reasoning above all things, except, perhaps his own.

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