How To Use Detestation In A Sentence
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With a deep and abiding detestation of competitive sports, he was naturally bookish.
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They are the detestation of the Trout bottom-angler, constantly nibbling away his bait, and tantalising him with vain hopes of a bite.
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Desire reversed to detestation like a rubber glove turned inside out.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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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
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Behind this mentality lies the progressive lobby's detestation of nationhood and Orwellian aspiration to world government.
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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.
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She is a poet whose poetic stimuli most often arise from friendship and, in a few striking cases, detestation.
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When she became 16, she declared her detestation of him and said that he had again made advances to her.
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One of the most-frequent targets for my detestation is California chardonnay — which is often guilty of all three infractions.
WTN: Sonoma-Cutrer Chardonnays (Sonoma)
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He made a very free and full acknowledgment of his error and seducement, and that with much detestation of his sin.
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Sometimes American policy has been inferior to that of many French people - one might instance Roosevelt's detestation of de Gaulle.
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Now a game of chess was the special delight of Miss Broadus; and as it was the detestation of her sister Miss Juliana, the delight was seldom realized.
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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
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But it seems to me that there might be something else at work as well, the residue of a deeper and much older detestation.
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Authentic feelings, in much shorter supply on the campaign trail, tend to be limited to two - a hunger for victory, and bitter detestation of anyone who might get in the way.
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He's balanced in his acknowledgement of the world's brutality and his detestation of its cruelty.
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The estate of the criminal is confiscated, and all that belonged to her destroyed with her (v. 39): They shall throw down thy eminent place, and (v. 41) they shall burn thy houses, as the habitations of bad women are destroyed, in detestation of their lewdness.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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She had not even spoken a word, and yet, Ashley could not help her intense feelings of detestation for her.
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Courtenay and Lady Beaulyon took place, as to whether 'Maryllia Van' in her professed detestation of Lord Roxmouth, would forget etiquette and the rule of 'precedence' -- but they soon saw she did not intend to so commit herself.
God's Good Man
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For some inexplicable reason, I found that my odium for a certain Coach Rams significantly outweighs my detestation of Damien Rose.
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His personal history is inspiring, as is his intellectual brilliance, knowledge of and detestation of fascism, communism and morally repugnant capitalism.
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He cannot believe why a human being would show so much detestation for another human being, who has not even spoken or looked at him.
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But he had yielded overlate to leave a good impression and, as Kenneth turned away, it was with a curse upon Galliard, for whom his detestation seemed to increase at every step.
The Tavern Knight
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He does not in the least pretend detestation of image worship to please his master, or any one else; he honestly scorns the 'carnal morality [171] as dowd and fusionless as rue-leaves at Yule' of the sermon in the upper cathedral; and when wrapt in critical attention to the 'real savour o' doctrine 'in the crypt, so completely forgets the hypocrisy of his fair service as to return his master's attempt to disturb him with hard punches of the elbow.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
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He cuts straight to the quick, opening his unblushing diary of detestation with this: ‘I hate him.’
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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.
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By contrast, the Trades Union Congress, driven by detestation for fascism, was more robust.
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Celebrate our Australianness by showing our usual mistrustful, self-deprecating, egalitarian, good-natured detestation of all such symbols of overt self-glorification.
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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)
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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)
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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.
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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
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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
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And they have lately become very vocal about their detestation of ordinary people.
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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.
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Like all the French, she had spoken of them - of most of them, at any rate, with detestation.
DISPLACED PERSON
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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
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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
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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)
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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.
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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
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`Jacquie's attitude to Hubert had been through the whole range from a crush to detestation.
DISPLACED PERSON
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Yesterday's set of exquisitely correct opinions concluded with a statement about his gut-wrenching detestation of war.
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Yesterday's set of exquisitely correct opinions concluded with a statement about his gut-wrenching detestation of war.
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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
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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.
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All could unite in detestation of the Government of the Republic, its weakness, its lack of spirit, its economic failure.
DARE CALL IT TREASON