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

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

Some tolerate it; some fatalistically accept its coming; others downright detest it and those who use it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 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

“So we are to countenance things and people which we detest, merely because we are not belles and millionaires, are we? That’s a nice sort of morality.”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

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

"He does not want to back down, and he does want to take on Pierre Poilievre, whom he detests," he said.

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2024

When he pens an exploitative work, like another recent bestseller he detests, he is astonished to get a lucrative publishing deal and a movie offer.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

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

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

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

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

Both parties found voters on the doorsteps who disliked the government and detested the prime minister.

From BBC ● May 9, 2026

Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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

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

The former Liga MX star wasn’t shy about detesting powerhouse Tigres UANL.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2021

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