detest

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

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

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

“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

If there is one thing I really detest, it is having someone look at his watch as he is talking to me.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

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

This, in a sport that absolutely detests nuance.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2023

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

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

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

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

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

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

As much as he detested the abuse that officials received, he was clear that fielding some boos was part of the job.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 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

There’s messaging about neighbors with different political views co-existing amicably – or, if not that, detesting each other for reasons other than politics.

From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2025

“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

I was three then, and a persistent baby, already detesting failure.

From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Clara Louise Kellogg