detest in the PONS Dictionary

detest Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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I detest the notion of the inward looking group.
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He has to kindle detest as well as sympathy.
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She is quite short, a fact which she detests.
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Though the stew was tolerable when famished, many soldiers detested it.
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They belong to different ethnic groups which traditionally detest each other, but they fall in love and eventually get married.
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It was simply that they detest the way we depicted them.
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She helps him by letting him emotionally and regularly vocalize his detest for his father.
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Although initially detested by some mainstream critics, the film has now become widely acclaimed.
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She detested the dirty appearance of trade workshops and transferred them to new, independent orphanages.
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As a politician, he detested party politics and tried to form unbiased opinions on important matters of the period.
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