detest

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 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

“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

Perhaps we would not be so anxious to prolong life if we did not detest so much the sickness of withdrawal.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

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

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

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

Beijing detests Lai, whom it believes is a separatist.

From Reuters ● Oct. 23, 2023

Instead, Boebert detests being associated with Greene, according to reports.

From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2023

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

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

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

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

For over 20 years, there has not been a single NHL player I detested more than Corey Perry, especially when he played for that other local team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2025

It was not that Morgause courted invisibility—indeed, she would have detested it, because she was beautiful.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

“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

All the Hinchfords whom I have known have been honest, earnest men, striving to do good, and detesting cunning and disguise.

From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) by Frederick William Robinson