detested

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A return to the top was a distant dream amid the dramas of two groundshares with Northampton and Birmingham, a detested ownership in Sisu, multiple protests and parliamentary mentions.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

“I think it’s proper to say that they really detested each other,” said Robert Aldrich, the film’s director.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

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

From BBC • Aug. 15, 2025

George Orwell detested the sermons that came with tea and bread when he was destitute in London.

From Salon • Jul. 5, 2025

In this case the punishment for the arrogance the gods detested fell not on Queen Cassiopeia, Andromeda’s mother, but on her daughter.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton