detestation

detest | American Dictionary

detest
verb[ T ]
us/dɪˈtest/
to hate; dislike extremely:
She detested traveling in hot weather.

Examples of detest

detest
Throughout his career he detested the suffocating complacency so often found in faculty culture.
He dealt with them as individuals, quite liking some, detesting others.
They might be detested or mocked, but they could certainly not be ignored.
It must have been galling to retreat so publicly, especially for a man who detested the status quo.
The increasingly apparent linkage between confession and sedition was grist to the mill of those evangelicals who detested the traditional theology of penance.
Conscription was a par ticularly detested and resisted practice.
Any one of his many contributions to macroeconomics (or rather to monetary theory, for he detests the term macroeconomics) would be an extraordinary achievement.
Different from me, who detests them.
Among other things, he tells us, they were staunch advocates of diversity, detested sexism and racism, favored social democracy and face-to-face community relations, and spoke out against foreign military adventures.
As such it is inevitably the language of an elite, however defined, and for this reason many impoverished people detest it - mainly because they do not have access to it.
It has become clear that old-age institutions, once deeply detested by the migrant population, are now seen differently by their children and by some older immigrants.
I detest the campaign of arson and anarchy that is going on at present.
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