Sample Sentences for
detest
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    They're having a budget meeting upstairs, and I detest those things.  (source)
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    I realize I detest Haymitch.  (source)
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    Students Against Driving Drunk and Student Athletes Detest Drugs.  (source)
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    I detested being home during the two-week vacation and impatiently awaited my return to school.  (source)
    detested = disliked intensely
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    Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked).  (source)
    detest = dislike intensely
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    She detests me.†  (source)
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    But I can't help detesting my relations.†  (source)
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    "Yes; quite," said my guest, in the clear, unmistakable voice of a small-talk detester.  (source)
    detester = intense disliker (someone who intensely dislikes)
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    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)
    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."
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    She detested them.  (source)
    detested = disliked intensely
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    'And you don't know anything, and that is why you detest my questions.†  (source)
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    It's obvious that she detests being a maid-of-all-work; he wonders if there is anything else she might prefer.†  (source)
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    "Does that always make people fall in love?" she answered, carelessly; "it seems to me quite as often a reason for detesting each other."†  (source)
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