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  • I realize I detest Haymitch.  (source)
  • She detested them.  (source)
    detested = disliked intensely
  • Of course my father detested doing this.  (source)
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  • Kya detested listening to this oily-haired man, who she never thought she'd see again, and here he was talking about her as though she weren't present.  (source)
    detested = disliked intensely
  • They're having a budget meeting upstairs, and I detest those things.  (source)
    detest = dislike intensely
  • She detests me.†  (source)
    detests = dislikes intensely
  • But I can't help detesting my relations.†  (source)
    detesting = disliking intensely
  • "Yes; quite," said my guest, in the clear, unmistakable voice of a small-talk detester.  (source)
    detester = intense disliker (someone who intensely dislikes)
  • But if one being no Pastor, nor of eminent reputation for knowledge in Christian Doctrine, doe the same, and another follow him; this is no Scandall given; for he had no cause to follow such example: but is a pretence of Scandall which hee taketh of himselfe for an excuse before men: For an unlearned man, that is in the power of an idolatrous King, or State, if commanded on pain of death to worship before an Idoll, hee detesteth the Idoll in his heart, hee doth well; though if he had the fortitude to suffer death, rather than worship it, he should doe better.†  (source)
    detesteth = dislikes intensely
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She detesteth" in older English, today we say "She detests."
  • He had detested it.  (source)
    detested = disliked intensely
  • Students Against Driving Drunk and Student Athletes Detest Drugs.  (source)
    Detest = dislike intensely
  • Anything that hinders his bride's love, he detests.†  (source)
    detests = dislikes intensely
  • There then ensued between the physician and the archdeacon one of those congratulatory prologues which, in accordance with custom, at that epoch preceded all conversations between learned men, and which did not prevent them from detesting each other in the most cordial manner in the world.†  (source)
    detesting = disliking intensely
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