Examples of detest

• We detest the practice and feel ourselves insulted whenever a book of the trap kind is put into our hands.

• Throughout his career he detested the suffocating complacency so often found in faculty culture.

• He dealt with them as individuals, quite liking some, detesting others.

• They might be detested or mocked, but they could certainly not be ignored.

• It must have been galling to retreat so publicly, especially for a man who detested the status quo.

• The increasingly apparent linkage between confession and sedition was grist to the mill of those evangelicals who detested the traditional theology of penance.

• Conscription was a par ticularly detested and resisted practice.

• Any one of his many contributions to macroeconomics (or rather to monetary theory, for he detests the term macroeconomics) would be an extraordinary achievement.