His music is adored – last year's "Rockstar" reached number one on the Billboard Chart – and it is detested, a troublesome crossover by a white artist into a predominantly black genre.
At the time, the I.W.W. had fewer than 20,000 members, but it was detested by business leaders because it pushed miners, lumberjacks and railway workers to use strikes, slowdowns and sabotage to pressure employers to improve pay and conditions.
She's detested both Inside and Outside, a mean-spirited, self-absorbed grifter out to make a cheap buck wherever she can.
For all the reasons that it can be detested, it can for those same reasons be loved.
Whatever you do, don't preach against it or you'll be detested.
But when it's the Biebs, who is detested by anyone over the age 10, we like to call that a jinx.
Ms. Ghaddar said Mr. Berri was detested by Hezbollah, Amal's ostensible ally, and faced a double threat to his survival if the Assad regime fell.
He ticked the boxes of reasons to be detested (in that, as Donald Rumsfeld might put it, rational irrationality of the football fan).
This system is detested by Nicolas Sarkozy because he believes it breeds an inward-looking, cautious kind of politician – but also, perhaps, because it rejected him at the age of 19.
As of a few months ago, he had come to be detested, blamed by many for the country's economic deterioration and ethnic tensions.
