detestation
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Dame Hilary spoke of her own "boiling detestation" for Lady Thatcher, but said she was "a fantastic character" and "the very stuff of drama".
From BBC • May 8, 2026
In my son’s democratic universe, I had hoped they could transcend detestation.
From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2022
Germany has set aside its traditional detestation for debt to unleash emergency spending, while enabling the rest of the European Union to breach limits on deficits.
From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2020
Her brand of detestation is the kind that only an ex-bestie can nurse and sustain.
From Salon • Jul. 2, 2017
Pain, shame, ire, impatience, disgust, detestation, seemed momentarily to hold a quivering conflict in the large pupil dilating under his ebon eyebrow.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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