| There is a difference between hating something and detesting it. |
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| We also might try not detesting strangers because of how they choose to dress, look and speak. |
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| In such conflicts, one knows one's adversaries only too well and one has personal reasons for detesting them. |
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| Fyodor Dostoyevsky stayed there briefly, detesting the subversive pro-Polish sentiment of what was the third-largest city in the tsarist empire. |
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| Dixon liked and revered him for his air of detesting everything that presented itself to his senses, and of not meaning to let this detestation become staled by custom. |
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| A rhythm that Theresa, Joseph's wife, ends up detesting. The evening of the French Championships, the defeat of one of the two girls throws the survival of the club into peril and shatters the family's equilibrium. |
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| Detesting the French Revolution and the egalitarian doctrines it spawned, he tried to thwart Jefferson's policies that might aid France or injure England and to induce Washington to follow his own ideas in foreign policy. |
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