detest

On a recent podcast, you said you had come to detest this famous line.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

If you dislike or even detest this film, I don’t seek to negate your feelings.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

She wants revenge without dwelling on its cause or her trauma — a word Hester would surely detest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025

So can a bridge be built between those who detest the love locks, and those who want them to stay in Bakewell?

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2024

And then they tell me I have to wear eyeliner, which I absolutely detest.

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli

She said she detests the shift toward app and kiosk ordering at locations in her area.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Judging from his previous term in office, we can be sure that every one of the people around him knows how he detests being disagreed with.

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 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

“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

Lai, who was elected president in January 2024, has been an outspoken defender of Taiwan's sovereignty and is detested by Chinese leaders.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

She detested the East Coast avatars of apocalypse, like Nathanael West, who saw only doom and gloom in sunny L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

Hockney detested the "cultural bossiness of New Labour" and joined the Countryside March in protest.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

The U.S. could soon have the “universally detested Temu Greyhound of the Skies.”

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026

Some of the private foundations’ publicity-shy directors quailed at becoming named as partners with a New Deal program detested by their corporate patrons.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

“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

Fearing the power of the Huguenots and detesting their faith, the Guises created the Catholic League, an armed militia of Catholics that included armed monks, townsfolk, and soldiers.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

If you already detest Dr. Phil, they will shore up your conviction that he is indeed worth detesting.

From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2017

You congratulate yourselves for the most part,... on detesting infidelity, and on respecting religion.

From French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson