All 4 Uses of
detest
in
The House of Mirth
- He remained immovable, with the lowering forehead she had grown to detest.†
Chpt 1.13 *
- She would not have detested him so heartily had she not known that he dared to admire her.†
Chpt 2.5
- She had even felt a momentary exhilaration at the thought of thus relieving herself of her detested secret; but the sensation gradually faded in the telling, and as she ended her pallour was suffused with a deep blush of misery.†
Chpt 2.10
- She liked to leave her room early, and to return to it as late as possible; and she was walking slowly now in order to postpone the detested approach to her doorstep.†
Chpt 2.11
Definition:
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(detest) dislike intensely