How To Use Detested In A Sentence
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Madame Mayer hated Corona d'Astrardente, Ugo del Ferice detested Giovanni with equal virulency, not only because he had been so terribly worsted by him in the duel his own vile conduct had made inevitable, but because
Saracinesca
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He detested air travel.
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Although he detested journalism his Johnsonian manner and compelling character established him as one of Fleet Street's most charismatic figures.
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Poor as in eating lots of beans and franks (which my mother detested and i liked, being a kid and all).
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But her skill as a writer and critic have been overlooked because she threw in her lot with the detested Mosley.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, she also detested what she called vulgarity, and had never in her life, even when handling it, uttered the word shit.
The Women’s Room
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Yet this monarch of all things detested pedantry, either as it shows itself in the mere form of Greek and Latin, or in ostentatious book-learning, or in the affectation of words of remote signification: these are the only points of view in which I have been taught to consider the meaning of the term pedantry, which is very indefinite, and always a relative one.
Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
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He detested three things: a Jesuit, a gendarme, and a claqueur at a theatre.
The Paris Sketch Book
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If there was one place that Angel detested it was the village, full of smelly houses and coarse women.
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[56] Morris became so intolerant of French vocables that he detested and would "fain" have eschewed the very word literature.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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What if it was an actor whose films you detested?
Times, Sunday Times
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She has been unfairly maligned as being soft on apartheid, which she detested.
Times, Sunday Times
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The unpopular cause of the Beni-Umeyyah, who were detested for the murder of the grandsons of the Prophet under the second of their line, was lost in a single battle; and the death of Merwan, the last khalif of the race, was followed by the unsparing proscription of the whole family.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844
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That girl, whom I so loved, whom I treated as my child, who was to me an image of what they call womanly purity, throws herself away upon my most detested enemy, a loathsome corpse, whose body, soul, and spirit had already decayed.
Debts of Honor
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The consequence of such behavior is an increasing tendency to pre-censor unpopular and detested ideas instead of discussing them and, thus, dealing with them head-on.
John W. Whitehead: The Chimp Cartoon and the Death of Free Speech
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Why, then, would Twain appropriate David's name, in this "mighty strike" of a story, for an "irascible," "generally detested" murder victim?
The Atlantic | July/August 2001 | Mark Twain's Reconstruction | Blount Jr.
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She could feel her skin burning under the hot Savannah sun and although she detested the snow, she despised the sun just as much.
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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
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Kate saw her cousin Dianna smile at this much needed telling-off of their mutually detested relation.
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No proceedings were therefore brought against the high-ranking army officers so cordially detested by the intellectuals.
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It was galling to have to apologize to a man she detested.
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However, many of his fellow countrymen detested him with just as much passion.
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But by none were the Uzcoques more feared and detested than by the greyheaded doge and senators of the Ocean Queen, the sea-born city, before whose cathedral the colours of three kingdoms fluttered from their crimson flagstaffs; and the few young Venetians in whose breasts the remembrance of their heroic ancestors yet lived, blushed for their country's degradation when they beheld her rulers braved and insulted by a band of sea-robbers.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
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About every year or so, she could talk him into calcimining the hallway, the dining, and living room walls, a job he detested.
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Marx detested romanticism, emotionalism, sentimentalism and humanitarianism of any kind.
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One of the reasons why he detested what he called stump oratory was because he believed it to be
Historical and Political Essays
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Although he detested journalism his Johnsonian manner and compelling character established him as one of Fleet Street's most charismatic figures.
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They were only the second generation to experience compulsory elementary education and mostly they detested it.
Times, Sunday Times
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But he was also an internationalist, and he deeply detested the negative aspect of Russian history and what he called enslavement attitude.
The Long Road to Freedom: Russia & Glasnost
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Marx detested romanticism, emotionalism, sentimentalism and humanitarianism of any kind.
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I have loathed the light of the sun, I have shrunk from the commerce of my fellow creatures; the voice of man I have detested, his sight I have abominated! — but oh, more than all should I be abominated myself!
Cecilia
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But her skill as a writer and critic have been overlooked because she threw in her lot with the detested Mosley.
Times, Sunday Times
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To ask Jacob to lend me money, to beg him to give me more time to pay a debt, to cajole and bully him by turns, to call him alternately usurer and _my honest fellow_, extortioner and _my friend Jacob_ -- my tongue could not have uttered the words, my soul detested the thought; yet all this, and more, could Mowbray do, and did.
Tales and Novels — Volume 09
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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
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Emily detested her mother's invidious shorthand: there was LC and LMC, MC and HC.
GRACED LAND
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Whereas Mozart famously detested Salzburg, Zehetmair retains much fonder memories of his home town.
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And she repeated to Edward in every possible tone that the girl did not love him; that the girl detested him for his brutality, his overbearingness, his drinking habits.
The Good Soldier
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Rome was again agitated by the bloody feuds of the barons, who detested each other, and despised the commons: their hostile fortresses, both in town and country, again rose, and were again demolished: and the peaceful citizens, a flock of sheep, were devoured, says the Florentine historian, by these rapacious wolves.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Dennis Lavinthal, copublisher of the industry trade magazine Hits, detested Cohen.
Fortune’s Fool
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The 'bargello' is a cordially-detested person all over Italy, if you except Modena, where the weak nobility make much of the 'bargello', and do justice to his excellent table.
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
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For myself, there was one reward I promised myself from my detested toils — one consolation for my unparalleled sufferings; it was the prospect of that day when, enfranchised from my miserable slavery, I might claim Elizabeth, and forget the past in my union with her.
Chapter 18
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Although he enjoyed entertaining friends in the whirlpool bath in his courtyard, he detested cooking for them.
Times, Sunday Times
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The newes of whose imprisonment was anon bruted through the realme, wherewith the Nobles fretted, and the commons curssed: finallie all men detested such tyrannie in the chancellour.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First
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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.
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George Bush slank out of office as the most detested president in American history.
Right or Left Media Bias?
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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
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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?
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The colonist detested him for his exactions, while his soldiery were a scourge to every district they were quartered upon.
The Story of Ireland
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On her date, her boyfriend took her to see the film Gladiator which she detested.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Schoolchildren, with the natural moral sense of the young, have always detested "clypes".
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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
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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
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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
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She detested Mrs Deacon, who was like a sterner, more forthright edition of Mrs Martin.
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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
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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
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'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
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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
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He was often unable to resist her girlish charms and detested the thought of making the poor child work more than she should.
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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
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Furthermore democratic socialism was feared and detested by doctrinaire Marxists because it offered planning in conjunction with freedom.
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They were only the second generation to experience compulsory elementary education and mostly they detested it.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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The anomaly, to reprise, is that Hitler today is detested for his human-rights violations, ie, the Holocaust.
The Hitler Anomaly « Isegoria
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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.
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No one moaned louder than Lydia, who detested what she considered ` gofer " jobs.
LEO: STAGE FRIGHT
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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
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Although he detested journalism his Johnsonian manner and compelling character established him as one of Fleet Street's most charismatic figures.
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Stalin detested the monument and had it demolished.
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Car alarms are the most detested noise, followed by folks arguing, dogs barking, loud music, and banging doors.
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She loathed and detested'social science '.
Times, Sunday Times
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In later times the vizir was a black slave of Ghaleb, and much detested for his pride and despotic conduct.
Travels in Arabia
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She has been unfairly maligned as being soft on apartheid, which she detested.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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They seemed to be looking for conformity, but they detested sameness.
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Frege disliked the move to democracy, and detested it even more as the socialists gained power.
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Jazzers detested the skifflers, who tended to look down their tea-chest basses at the folkies, often with good reason.
Times, Sunday Times
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He combined cultural Englishness with political cosmopolitanism, and detested political personality cults while sedulously cultivating a public image of himself.
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One thing that Bertie detested was rice and curry, so it happened that he alone partook of an inviting omelet.
THE TERRIBLE SOLOMONS
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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
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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
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He detested the Victorian ideal of love, with the doves and rosy-cheeked cherubs and gossamer and lace.