Opposite of adore

Usage examples of detest.

As much as Nadon detested violence, he knew that Alima was a monster, someone who must be destroyed.

These republicans, whom from my soul I detest, have turned out the Ghibelines, and are now fighting with the nobles, and asserting the superiority of the vulgar, till every petty artizan of its meanest lane fancies himself as great a prince as the emperor Henry himself.

It was now his one ambition to arrange a new succession excluding the Vaufontaines, a detested branch of the Bercy family.

I was still convinced that I would rather lie in the arms of My Lord the Tiger than in those of Bharata Rahon, who is a loathsome man whose very name I detest.

Parrish detests Bridgeport, envying him his looks, his acclaim, his wealth, and especially his title.

It was a grand canoe trip--a weird procession of tawny, black-haired fellows swinging their paddles day after day, with their freight of ancient bones, leaving the sunny fishing grounds of the Nanticoke and the Choptank to seek a refuge from the detested white man in the cold mountains of Pennsylvania.

Coleridge thought the whole detested tribe of critics was in league against his literary success.

She detested Angelina as too precious, and I hated Newman as the dweebiest name ever given.

The infant Hercules destroys the pernicious snakes detested of the gods, and ever, like St.

Where every shade which the foul grave exhales Hides its dead eye from the detested day, Conducts, O Sleep, to thy delightful realms?

From Panchaud in Paris he had learned the importance of its liberation, and one of the aspects of Jacobinism he most detested was its irrational hatred of the money market.

Whig, he abjured and detested them, and hoped to see the day, not only when they should be deemed libels, but when the authors of such doctrines should be liable to punishment.

White detested dogma, and Cornell had been established as a nonsectarian university, to the fury of many conservative religious leaders.

I reflected, putting down the receiver, to think that I had been at Martineau Park races so long on Tuesday afternoon totally oblivious of the existence of Vernon among the caterers Orkney Swayle so much detested.

Luet was no raveler like her sister Hushidh, but she knew that Rasa was still bound to Gaballufix, even though she detested all his recent actions.