All 9 Uses of
detest
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Mercedes, who will detest you if you have only the misfortune to scratch the skin of her dearly beloved Edmond!†
Chpt 3-4 *
- "Sire," said Villefort, "the usurper is detested in the south; and it seems to me that if he ventured into the south, it would be easy to raise Languedoc and Provence against him."†
Chpt 11-12
- Here is Debray, who detests you without reading you, so he says.†
Chpt 39-40
- The world, however, is mistaken; my father abandons me from utter indifference, while my mother-in-law detests me with a hatred so much the more terrible because it is veiled beneath a continual smile.†
Chpt 51-52
- "But it seems to me," said Monte Cristo, "and I must begin by asking your pardon for what I am about to say, that if M. Noirtier disinherits Mademoiselle de Villefort because she is going to marry a man whose father he detested, he cannot have the same cause of complaint against this dear Edward."†
Chpt 59-60
- The men are all infamous, and I am happy to be able now to do more than detest them—I despise them.†
Chpt 97-98
- …the contemptuous expression with which her daughter looked upon Debray,—an expression which seemed to imply that she understood all her mother's amorous and pecuniary relationships with the intimate secretary; moreover, she saw that Eugenie detested Debray,—not only because he was a source of dissension and scandal under the paternal roof, but because she had at once classed him in that catalogue of bipeds whom Plato endeavors to withdraw from the appellation of men, and whom Diogenes…†
Chpt 99-100
- Yes, for you who detest those unhappy princes, Beauchamp, and are always delighted to find fault with them; but not for me, who discover a gentleman by instinct, and who scent out an aristocratic family like a very bloodhound of heraldry.†
Chpt 109-110
- I detest her, from antipathy.†
Chpt 109-110
Definition:
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(detest) dislike intensely