All 4 Uses of
detest
in
Sense and Sensibility
- I detest jargon of every kind, and sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning.†
Chpt 18
- He had no pleasure at Norland; he detested being in town; but either to Norland or London, he must go.†
Chpt 19 *
- It makes one detest all one's acquaintance.†
Chpt 20
- No one made any objection but Marianne, who with her usual inattention to the forms of general civility, exclaimed, "Your Ladyship will have the goodness to excuse ME—you know I detest cards.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
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(detest) dislike intensely