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dɪˈtɛstde·test

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  1. detest

    Abhor is stronger than despise, implying a shuddering recoil, especially a moral recoil. "How many shun evil as inconvenient who do not abhor it as hateful." Trench Serm. in Westm. Abbey xxvi, 297. [Murray's "New English Dictionary"] Detest expresses indignation, with something of contempt. Loathe implies disgust, physical or moral. We abhor a traitor, despise a coward, detest a liar. We dislike an uncivil person. We abhor cruelty, hate tyranny. We loathe a reptile or a flatterer. We abhor Milton's heroic Satan, but we can not despise him.

    Synonyms:
    abhor, abominate, despise, dislike, hate, loathe, nauseate, scorn, shun

    Antonyms:
    admire, approve, covet, crave, desire, enjoy, esteem, esteem, like, love, relish

Princeton's WordNet3.0 / 1 vote

  1. hate, detestverb

    dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards

    "I hate Mexican food"; "She detests politicians"

    Synonyms:
    hate

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  1. detestverb

    Synonyms:
    hate (extremely), abominate, abhor, loathe, nauseate, shrink from, recoil from

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  1. detestverb

    Synonyms:
    loathe, despise, abominate, abhor, hate, execrate

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  1. List of paraphrases for "detest":

    hate, abhor

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#3527hate
#17397dislike
#31276despise
#31524shun
#34727scorn
#49384loathe
#69016detest
#73795abhor

How to use detest in a sentence?

  1. Edgar Watson Howe:

    Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

  2. Stephen Leacock:

    I detest life-insurance agents they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

  3. William Shakespeare:

    Since Cleopatra died, I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods Detest my baseness.

  4. H. L. Mencken:

    I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.

  5. Lord Byron:

    Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.


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