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detest
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Madame Bovary
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- And she detested her instinctively.†
Chpt 1.2 *detested = disliked intensely
- I detest commonplace heroes and moderate sentiments, such as there are in nature.†
Chpt 2.2detest = dislike intensely
- In this tragedy, for example, he found fault with the ideas, but admired the style; he detested the conception, but applauded all the details, and loathed the characters while he grew enthusiastic over their dialogue.†
Chpt 2.3detested = disliked intensely
- As to the chemist's spouse, she was the best wife in Normandy, gentle as a sheep, loving her children, her father, her mother, her cousins, weeping for other's woes, letting everything go in her household, and detesting corsets; but so slow of movement, such a bore to listen to, so common in appearance, and of such restricted conversation, that although she was thirty, he only twenty, although they slept in rooms next each other and he spoke to her daily, he never thought that she might be a woman for another, or that she possessed anything else of her sex than the gown.†
Chpt 2.3detesting = disliking intensely
- Then the landlady began telling him the story that she had heard from Theodore, Monsieur Guillaumin's servant, and although she detested Tellier, she blamed Lheureux.†
Chpt 2.8detested = disliked intensely
- She even asked herself why she detested Charles; if it had not been better to have been able to love him?†
Chpt 2.10
- She detested him now.†
Chpt 3.6
- And thereupon, telling him the story of the distraint, she explained her distress to him; for Charles knew nothing of it; her mother-in-law detested her; old Rouault could do nothing; but he, Leon, he would set about finding this indispensable sum.†
Chpt 3.7
- The sight of an ecclesiastic was personally disagreeable to him, for the cassock made him think of the shroud, and he detested the one from some fear of the other.†
Chpt 3.8
- He detested him, and wishing, in the interests of his own reputation, to get rid of him at all costs, he directed against him a secret battery, that betrayed the depth of his intellect and the baseness of his vanity.†
Chpt 3.11
Definitions:
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(1)
(detest) dislike intensely
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)