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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

detested = disliked intensely

"Well, they did rather detest each other."
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

detest = dislike intensely

I detested being home during the two-week vacation and impatiently awaited my return to school.
Dave Pelzer -- A Child Called It

detested = disliked intensely

Students Against Driving Drunk and Student Athletes Detest Drugs.
Sharon M. Draper -- Tears of a Tiger

detest = dislike intensely

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

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