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to hate someone or something
hateI hate camping.
detestI detest any kind of cruelty.
loathe"Do you like cabbage?" "No, I loathe it."
despiseShe despised him for the way he treated her.

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Disapproving & criticizing
anathematize
animadversion
aspersion
aw
backbite
barrel
bash
belabour
boo
disapprobation
excoriate
knocker
let someone have both barrelsidiom
low blow
mordacious
mordancy
nitpicker
pile
slam
union-basher

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Not liking

deplore | American Dictionary

deplore
verb[ T ]
us/dɪˈplɔr, -ˈploʊr/
to say or think that something is very bad; condemn :
The editors deplore the lack of attention given to climate change.

Examples of deplore

deplore
When people deplore changes in their language, they are in fact nearly always worried about something else.
It's not mere philistinism to deplore the victory of such theological assiduity over the hapless 'text'.
Feminist readers attacked its pretension and conservative readers deplored its moral turpitude, while the literati viewed it simply as bad writing.
At several other points, too, she deplores what she considers to be other researchers' apparent misunderstanding of the model (64, 87).
His argument links developments in technology with developments in culture he deplores, but it does not give precedence to technological change.
He particularly deplores the increasingly authoritarian and militaristic methods that some of them embraced (p. 20).
This decree deplored the poor foreign-language speaking and reading skills of high school and university graduates.
In brief, for these two reasons-introducing uncertainty into the economy and into the polity, and its undemocratic nature-judicial activism is to be deplored.
He deplored this, recognising implicitly that the chances of the confederation emerging as an organisation, even a light and flexible one, were quite small.
He deplored pusillanimity, double-dealing, or disloyalty : his honesty was inexpugnable.
A very significant change over the last 30 years has been the move towards short-ter m research, which the authors deplore.
Some reformers, however, deplored the disjointedness of these endeavours.
One might say that their commitment to their children outweighed their identification with a generation which in general deplored divorce.
Many authors have deplored the state of our knowledge of certain parasite taxa.
While social politics was often fashionably deplored, it was a fact of eighteenthcentury political life.
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