Detest
"Detest" in a Sentence (15 examples)
And since she refused to accept it, she had been living in extreme discomfort, exclaiming: "Why should we spend all the capital we are ever likely to have tying ourselves down to a place we detest!"
They absolutely detest each other.
I detest having to hurry in the morning.
The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
Tom really does detest giving speeches in front of large audiences.
Tom and Mary detest each other.
I detest everyone, and everyone detests me.
I detest Tom.
I detest hypocrisy.
You detest Tom, don't you?
I detest snakes.
Who dares think one thing, and another tell, / My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.
The heresy of Nestorius […] was detested in the Eastern churches.
God hath detested them with his own mouth.
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