detestation

Examples of detested

detested

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Nevertheless, the detested forms of human oppression are not enough, so to speak.
What they detested above all was plutocracy, and they craved a world wherein industrialism and speculation were subordinate to vaguely-defined spiritual values.
Thus, the hapless crier, for one unlucky moment, became the incarnation of a detested policy and paid the price for decisions made by superiors.
Throughout his career he detested the suffocating complacency so often found in faculty culture.
A particular form of masculinity permeates the hoboes' sense of identity, which defines itself against the ' ' feminised ' ' and therefore detested condition of domesticity.
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.
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.
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.
Alas, many obnoxious blood sports remain in this country, but none is more detested than hare coursing.
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