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Definition of Detest

Detest

To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.

To hate intensely; to abhor; to abominate; to loathe; as, we detest what is contemptible or evil.

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Detest Quotations

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
Nelson Mandela

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Alexander Pope

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
H. L. Mencken

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Lord Byron

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
Lord Byron

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
Virginia Woolf

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Jonathan Swift

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

Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
Orson Scott Card

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
Nicolas Chamfort

I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.
Christine Lahti

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.
Ezra Cornell

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
George Byron

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
Edward W. Howe

I really detest movies like Indecent Proposal and Pretty Woman because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
Laura Kightlinger

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
Noam Chomsky

I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices.
Renee Vivien

I am reconciled to my death, but I detest the mode.
John Andre

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Detest Translations

detest in German is verabscheuen
detest in Italian is odio, avere in orrore
detest in Norwegian is avsky
detest in Spanish is renegar, aborrecer, detestar

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