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Usage examples of detested.

I've detested that treacherous peasant's offal as long as I've known him and the only reason I never killed him was because he was the Taikō's dog.

The two sisters loved each other, but Ochiba hated Toranaga and his brood, as Genjiko detested the Taikō and Yaemon, his son.

When the Taikō had died last year, Toranaga, on behalf of the Council of Regents, had at once ordered the remnants of their armies home, to the great relief of the vast majority of daimyos, who detested the Korean campaign.

Once I did, freely, even though I detested him from the first moment I saw him.

Normally the detested ninja attacked singly or in small groups, to vanish as quickly as they appeared once their mission was accomplished.

He disdained to profess himself the servant of an assembly that detested his person and trembled at his frown.

They rested their hopes on the hatred of mankind against Maximin, and they judiciously resolved to oppose to that detested tyrant an emperor whose mild virtues had already acquired the love and esteem of the Romans, and whose authority over the province would give weight and stability to the enterprise.

He died regretted by the army, detested by the senate, but universally acknowledged as a warlike and fortunate prince, the useful, though severe reformer of a degenerate state.

He gave a private audience to the ambassadors, who, in the name of the senate and people, conjured him to deliver Rome from a detested tyrant.

As soon as the severity of the persecution was abated, the doors of the churches were assailed by the returning multitude of penitents who detested their idolatrous submission, and who solicited with equal ardor, but with various success, their readmission into the society of Christians.

They detested, perhaps with some affectation, the impiety of Aetius.

The hostile tribes of the North, who detested the pride and power of the King of the World, suspended their domestic feuds.

The valor of Sarus, his fame in arms, and his personal, or hereditary, influence over the confederate Barbarians, could recommend him only to the friends of their country, who despised, or detested, the worthless characters of Turpilio, Varanes, and Vigilantius.

But the fair Honoria had no sooner attained the sixteenth year of her age, than she detested the importunate greatness which must forever exclude her from the comforts of honorable love.

Yet, instead of applauding their victorious prince, his subjects detested the rapacious and rigid avarice of Basil.