detest
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Some tolerate it; some fatalistically accept its coming; others downright detest it and those who use it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
Carey shares that he used to detest wealthy people, before laughing and noting the irony — his career has made him rich.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025
Not only do the Fremen detest colonizers mining their planet for spice and often attack them, the mining operation is also a dangerous activity in and of itself.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
His detractors are loathe to admit this because they would then have to admit that they too are oddly compelled towards him even as they detest him.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2024
“But no one will care if you go; you know we all detest Lady Isobel, don’t you?”
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
Mensah is a maternal figure who insists that Murderbot show its human face, although the cyborg detests eye contact.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2025
Beijing detests Lai, whom it believes is a separatist.
From Reuters ● Oct. 23, 2023
This, in a sport that absolutely detests nuance.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2023
Those who know him well say he detests opposition.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2023
“The only person that made any sense in the dream was Professor Tupper. I mean he was the only person that was there that I know really detests me.”
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
A boisterous protest greeted fans arriving at SoFi stadium in Los Angeles, with demonstrators waving the pre-revolutionary flag detested by the leaders of the Islamic republic.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
Alberto Fujimori was a political outsider who won power in 1990 by sweeping up support among Peru’s poor masses who detested the establishment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
He "detested his father", according to Neave, and left East Yorkshire for London's fashionable society.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026
For over 20 years, there has not been a single NHL player I detested more than Corey Perry, especially when he played for that other local team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2025
Yet she detested that “most meaningless of phrases, ‘plain Miss Smith.’”
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
There’s messaging about neighbors with different political views co-existing amicably – or, if not that, detesting each other for reasons other than politics.
From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2025
“I’ve always had this sort of magical-thinking way of detesting my previous books as a way of pushing myself forward,” she told the Washington Square Review in 2015.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
Also detesting the invasion is Maria Yumasheva, the 19-year-old daughter of Russian real estate developer Valentin Yumashev and his wife Tatyana Borisovna.
From Fox News ● Mar. 5, 2022
A reader called me out on it, saying that there’s a difference between disagreeing with a position and detesting a person.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2021
Heartily detesting this class of melody, she never failed to make her chums laugh with her mocking imitation.
From Marjorie Dean College Junior by Pauline Lester
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