Detested

Examples

• 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 .
• Where these angry passions rise up to cruelty, they form the most detested of all vices. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Ma, I always hated and detested Mr. Quale! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And I'd rather have somebody I detested, than the ordinary woman who keeps to her own set. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She despised and detested the whole show. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• They are mere articles of fashion, purchased and consumed because the fashion in a respected country; but will now be detested and rejected. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I detested the trade, preferring almost any other labor; but I was fond of agriculture, and of all employment in which horses were used. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She would not have detested him so heartily had she not known that he dared to admire her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• She detested us, she was miserable with us, she couldn't bear it, she wouldn't bear it, she was determined to go away. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Individually he detested and despised them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The restive little man detested spur or curb: against whatever was urgent or obligatory, he was sure to revolt. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He had no pleasure at Norland; he detested being in town; but either to Norland or London, he must go. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The free-thinker hated the formalist; the lover of liberty detested the disciplinarian. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

Typist: Mason