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How to use detested in a sentence

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Francis was a lively young spark who hobnobbed with Wentworth, Wardell, Mackaness and other Adullamites whom Darling detested.
However, many of his fellow countrymen detested him with just as much passion.
Car alarms are the most detested noise, followed by folks arguing, dogs barking, loud music, and banging doors.
On her date, her boyfriend took her to see the film Gladiator which she detested.
Kate saw her cousin Dianna smile at this much needed telling-off of their mutually detested relation.
He was a kindly man with much sympathy for refugees from totalitarian countries, whose misdirection of science he detested.
He detested the Victorian ideal of love, with the doves and rosy-cheeked cherubs and gossamer and lace.
Frege disliked the move to democracy, and detested it even more as the socialists gained power.
Midwestern by birth, German by descent, and married to a Viennese, he liked the Germans, but he detested Hitler and his gang.
About every year or so, she could talk him into calcimining the hallway, the dining, and living room walls, a job he detested.
If there was one place that Angel detested it was the village, full of smelly houses and coarse women.
Whereas Mozart famously detested Salzburg, Zehetmair retains much fonder memories of his home town.
No proceedings were therefore brought against the high-ranking army officers so cordially detested by the intellectuals.
Marx detested romanticism, emotionalism, sentimentalism and humanitarianism of any kind.
She could feel her skin burning under the hot Savannah sun and although she detested the snow, she despised the sun just as much.
He was often unable to resist her girlish charms and detested the thought of making the poor child work more than she should.
Why did so many conservatives see the president not simply as a detested opponent but as a cheater, a deceiver, a beguiler, and a rogue?
They seemed to be looking for conformity, but they detested sameness.
He combined cultural Englishness with political cosmopolitanism, and detested political personality cults while sedulously cultivating a public image of himself.
When have parents on earth loved only their good children and detested their bad ones?
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Examples from Classical Literature
I detested his pink, bald head, and his yellow whiskers, always soft and glistening.
Little need to show that this detested family name had long been anathematised by Saint Antoine, and was wrought into the fatal register.
Even the grumpy old professor of Mathematics, who detested coeds, and had bitterly opposed their admission to Redmond, couldn't floor her.
She would not consent to remain with Edna, for Monsieur Ratignolle was alone, and he detested above all things to be left alone.
Emma Jane had hitherto heartily concurred in this opinion, for if there was any one thing that she detested it was the learning of lessons.
Davis particularly detested the odor of the fashionable pickle, and disgust added to his wrath.
One thing that Bertie detested was rice and curry, so it happened that he alone partook of an inviting omelet.
Despite being extremely wealthy, Day detested the fripperies and materialistic attitudes of his peers.
It is impossible to describe, or to imagine, the deep, the blissful sense of relief which the absence of the detested creature occasioned in my bosom.
I recognized the detested voice of my bete noir, Alick Carruthers, thick as might be expected of the dissipated dog, yet daring to stutter out her name.
Janet loved me for it, just as she detested poor Esther because Esther had said so much shade was unhygienic and had objected to sleeping on a feather bed.
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