All 5 Uses of
detest
in
War and Peace
- He behaved very well in the regiment but was not liked; Rostov especially detested him and was unable to overcome or conceal his groundless antipathy to the man.†
Chpt 2
- Oh, how Rostov detested at that moment those hands with their short reddish fingers and hairy wrists, which held him in their power….†
Chpt 4 *
- Bagration was slow in effecting the junction—though that was the chief aim of all at headquarters—because, as he alleged, he exposed his army to danger on this march, and it was best for him to retire more to the left and more to the south, worrying the enemy from flank and rear and securing from the Ukraine recruits for his army; and it looks as if he planned this in order not to come under the command of the detested foreigner Barclay, whose rank was inferior to his own.†
Chpt 10
- Adjutant General Wolzogen, the man who when riding past Prince Andrew had said, "the war should be extended widely," and whom Bagration so detested, rode up while Kutuzov was at dinner.†
Chpt 10
- The allies detest Napoleon whom they regard as the cause of their sufferings.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(detest) dislike intensely