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dislike intensely- She detests politicians who make promises they don't keep.
detests = dislikes intensely
- I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.Voltaire
- He could hardly believe what he was seeing, and although he detested flies, he was sorry for this one.E. B. White -- Charlotte's Web
- "Well, they did rather detest each other."J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- I detested being home during the two-week vacation and impatiently awaited my return to school.Dave Pelzer -- A Child Called It
- Students Against Driving Drunk and Student Athletes Detest Drugs.Sharon M. Draper -- Tears of a Tiger
- The horses detested them.E. B. White -- Charlotte's Web
- 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.Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility
- I detested the accusing sound of meow.Julia Alvarez -- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
- The name he had so detested, here hidden and preserved—that was the first thing his father had given him.Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
- That power also saved you from possession by Voldemort, because he could not bear to reside in a body so full of the force he detests.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- No. Every true Englishman detests the English.George Bernard Shaw -- Major Barbara
- 'Every word!' cried the gentleman, 'every word that has passed between you and this detested villain, is known to me.Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist
- Ah me, detested! how am I beguil'd!William Shakespeare -- Twelfth Night
- I'm sorry, but I detest Avery and Mulciber!J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Boyle rode him over rather than drive the horse in the trailer Alastar detested.Nora Roberts -- Dark Witch
- It is impossible to describe, or to imagine, the deep, the blissful sense of relief which the absence of the detested creature occasioned in my bosom.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Black Cat
- She can't hurt him, Izzy," said Alec in the reasonable voice Isabelle detested.Cassandra Clare -- City of Fallen Angels
- He called all such things 'pawing, and detested them.Edith Nesbit -- The Railway Children
- I detest that man and it rankles that he got so much of you and I got so little.Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
detested = disliked intensely
detest = dislike intensely
detested = disliked intensely
detest = dislike intensely
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