The phrase "I really detest" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
This phrase is typically used to express a deep and strong feeling of dislike or hatred towards someone or something. Example: "I really detest spiders. Their eight legs and creepy crawly movements give me the shivers."
He placed little value on awards, and avoided presentation ceremonies whenever he could: "I really detest all the mutual congratulation baloney and the invidious comparisons which they evoke".
In 1975, despite his professed dislike for the city, he moved to Los Angeles to record Station to Station, an experience he would later detail in a 1979 television interview with Mavis Nicholson: "I went to Los Angeles and I lived there for a couple of years, which is a city I really detest, amongst people that I didn't like very much, to see what would happen to my writing," he said.
"What I really detested was the way it was called 'the extraordinary Pachelbel Canon.' That annoyed me more than the music".
My colleague at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein says that what some campaigners really detest is the central message of Jewish circumcision: Not everything that is "natural" is perfect.
And I really do detest the Tories".
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What he really detested was the style.
Sometimes, she really detested herself, and this was one of those times.
Welles saw this as very superficial and he really detested the machismo.
It turned out that what the Know Nothings really detested, even more than immigrants, were two entrenched parties -- Democrats and Whigs -- who offered no persuasive solutions to the agony of displacement.
What he really detested was mannerism, in all its guises, whether the mannerism was the Italian kind that had to be cured by Caravaggio or of the postmodern kind that had yet to be cured at all.
