Detest
[dɪ'test] or [dɪ'tɛst]
Definition
(v. t.) To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.
(v. t.) To hate intensely; to abhor; to abominate; to loathe; as, we detest what is contemptible or evil.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Hate (extremely), abominate, abhor, loathe, nauseate, shrink from, recoil from.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ABOMINATE]
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Definition
v.t. to hate intensely.—adj. Detest′able worthy of being detested: extremely hateful: abominable.—n. Detest′ableness.—adv. Detest′ably.—n. Detestā′tion extreme hatred.
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Examples
- You know how I detest it, unless I am particularly acquainted with my partner. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Having seen the evil results we have come to detest a conscious choice of issues, to feel that it smacks of sinister plotting. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There is something in the sound of Mr. _Edmund_ Bertram so formal, so pitiful, so younger-brother-like, that I detest it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I detest what I am, outwardly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I quite detest her. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I detest the whole thing so that that alone makes my head ache till I can't see out of my eyes. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Birkin decided that he detested toasts, and footmen, and assemblies, and mankind altogether, in most of its aspects. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Little need to show that this detested family name had long been anathematised by Saint Antoine, and was wrought into the fatal register. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I knew that I was preparing for myself a deadly torture; but I was the slave, not the master of an impulse, which I detested, yet could not disobey. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- From the bottom of her heart, from the bottom of her soul, she despised and detested people, adult people. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Notwithstanding some objections from Miss Fanny, that it was a low instrument, and that she detested the sound of it, the concession had been made. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Unfortunately, Mr. Davis particularly detested the odor of the fashionable pickle, and disgust added to his wrath. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It was incapable of soulfulness and tragedy, which she detested so profoundly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Mamma detests him; she says he killed aunt Ginevra with unkindness: he looks like a bear. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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