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
“A general sentiment of disgust for the man, and detestation for his principles, fills every decent mind,” reported one local newspaper, while at the Capitol, “his colleagues heaped only scorn and derision on him.”
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2016
The Fundamentalists required no new reason to detest robots and robot manufacturers; but a new reason such as the Quinn accusation and the Calvin analysis was sufficient to make such detestation audible.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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