detest

The difficulty, of course, is that most Canadians detest Mr. Trump.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 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

People detest her and Prince Harry for stepping back from their royal duties and even more so for going public about what life was like for them.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 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

I ‘abjure, curse and detest my errors,’ he said.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

He values skill, graciousness, and intellect and detests wanton corruption — especially when it touches him or someone he cares about.

From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2025

Beijing detests Lai, whom it believes is a separatist.

From Reuters ● Oct. 23, 2023

Those who know him well say he detests opposition.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2023

“The whale abhors chaos; the squid detests order. Is this ship not the bastard child of both?”

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

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

I detested “circling back” and “picking low-hanging fruit.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

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

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026

"I was not a supporter of British imperialism, in fact I detested it," Yavar tells me.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2025

Without waiting to catch breath after his heroic skirmish, he began uttering, over these detested feathers, the most horrible imprecations imaginable.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

“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

And this, no doubt, is due to the fact that the Chinese are alone among nations of the earth in detesting violence and cultivating reason.

From Appearances Being Notes of Travel by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson