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

“I detest it, the mere idea of it,” Freeman told Variety in a recent interview about “The Gray House,” a historical drama series about the work of Union spies during the Civil War.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2024

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

It was funny how he had really come to detest flying.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Reilly said he loves being able to offer affordable food, as he "detests" waste of any kind.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

Beijing detests Lai, whom it believes is a separatist.

From Reuters ● Oct. 23, 2023

Crawford detests being out of the lineup for any reason.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 21, 2023

Gauguin detests “messing about in the medium,” he tells Bernard.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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

He detested beards, thought them all fakes—his bearded Georgian father had died in 1937.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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

He "detested his father", according to Neave, and left East Yorkshire for London's fashionable society.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026

He felt he was casting a spell on the detested bird of prey that would paralyze its evil force.

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

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

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

Other-writers tell us that they were a worthy people, averse to war, allied to virtue, to cleanliness, and good manners, detesting falsehood and treachery.

From Aztec Land by Maturin Murray Ballou