Sentence examples for detest is from inspiring English sources

But what they detest is the idea that it might let feckless Italians and Portuguese off the hook.

The reason that the two campaigns are sticking with a strategy that so many voters profess to detest is somewhat paradoxical: it works.

By John Cassidy November 5, 2016 The reason that the Clinton and the Trump campaigns are embracing negativity, a strategy that so many voters profess to detest, is somewhat paradoxical: it works.

I hear no dates for a strike, but one thing I do detest is yet again a union trying to disrupt our lives for what - does anybody know?

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.

Thus, Lang Lang, whom everyone has the right to detest, is not a marketing product; it's the marketing (aggressive, annoying, often ridiculous) that is one of the Lang Lang epiphenomena.

The Greenwald that we know – that the NSA and GCHQ detest – was born.

Some shoppers love them, but others detest being lectured by a mis-functioning machine.

Defence secretaries are despised by the armed forces for never having fought, doctors sneer at health secretaries, and teachers detest being instructed by education secretaries.

Moreover, the Tory hard Brexiters, wedded to the notion of a clean break from an EU they detest, are in the political ascendancy.

Kneeland wrote that Burns, with "a smile which quickly developed into a constantly recurrent and particularly devilish grin," told him, "I shall tell you quite frankly that I detest being asked questions".