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词汇 detestation
释义 detestation
noun[ U ]
 formaluk /ˌdiː.tesˈteɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌdiː.tesˈteɪ.ʃən/
the feeling of hating someone or something very much: 厌恶,讨厌,憎恶
He looked at her with detestation.他用厌恶的眼光看着她。
She was motivated by her detestation of injustice.她的动力是对不公正的厌恶。
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detest
He still felt the same horror and detestation of his ancient enemy.
She glanced at him with a look of pure detestation.
She has a barely controlled detestation of Charles.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Feelings of dislike and hatred
abhorrence
abomination
anathema
animosity
animus
distaste
distaste for someone/something
distastefully
enmity
execrate
misandrist
misandry
misanthrope
misanthropy
misogynist
self-hating
self-hatred
self-loathing
sore point
technophobe

Examples of detestation


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These recent events were remembered affectionately by some, but with detestation by more.
By the middle of the nineteenth century these attitudes had hardened to the point where they amounted to an ideology of contempt if not detestation.
The noise would have been one way, motivated by an entirely righteous detestation of those crimes.
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It should therefore be reserved as the most emphatic, dramatic mark of disapprobation, the detestation by the community of particular crimes.
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We shall incur, and we shall deserve, the detestation of posterity.
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We are not divided in our detestation of cruelty.
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When we want to show our detestation of totalitarian regimes cannot we find a better method of doing that than slavishly imitating their practices?
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It causes individuals, and, indeed, the whole people, to regard that crime with detestation.
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We have had only too many opportunities of giving expression to our feelings of detestation of these attacks and sympathy to the victims of them.
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They had a detestation of the degradation of living creatures by degraded human beings.
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We have repeatedly made clear our detestation of acts of violence, by whomsoever committed.
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They expressed a dread of the future, nothwithstanding their detestation of the war.
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You cannot get them to show any public detestation of these outrages.
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No words can be too strong to express our detestation of such outrages, and apparently, so far as we know, they have been numerous.
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The principle of detestation of racial discrimination is not in dispute.
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