Sentence examples for to detest from inspiring English sources

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to detest

verb

To dislike intensely; to loathe.

  • I detest snakes.

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Carpender and Lockwood did not get along well, and soon came to detest one another.

He began to detest red.

Learning how not to detest him.

Privately, however, they were growing to detest each other.

Those who didn't dismiss the film seemed to detest it.

The American people have come to detest Congress for its contentiousness and inaction.

Our discussions slowly moved away from the nose and the stomach I had grown to detest.

Others said it reflected the isolation of a president they had come to detest.

To be passionate about "Europe" these days, you have to detest the whole idea.

He claimed to detest her, of course, being red through and through.

She also wants to know why her mother seems to detest Mary.

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