If you detest something, you dislike it intensely. The word can apply to things and also to people. You might detest your ex boyfriend and you might also detest rainy Mondays and broccoli.
To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.
Verb
dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards; "I hate Mexican food"; "She detests politicians"
v. t.
To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.
v. t.
To hate intensely; to abhor; to abominate; to loathe;
as, we detest what is contemptible or evil.
Detest
The heresy of Nestorius . . . was detested in the Eastern churches.
God hath detested them with his own mouth.2.
Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.
Usage Examples
Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.
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Other Usage ExamplesNothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.
I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
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