(v. t.) To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.
(v. t.) To hate intensely; to abhor; to abominate; to loathe; as, we detest what is contemptible or evil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Though no doubt he reviles Goldsmith’s racism, he doesn’t detest it quite enough to lend a hand to oust him.
(2) There is also Mario Draghi at the ECB, rambling on about quantitative easing , a policy that Berlin detests.
(3) Blackburn Rovers must be growing to detest the site of London.
(4) It may be “just a local vote”, political analyst Madani Cheurfa told the Observer , “but everything depends on how the Front National reacts and if Marine Le Pen manages to get the FN to speak with one voice.” Will Le Pen, head of the FN, be forced to echo the rivals she detests to show a united front against terrorism, as she did after the Charlie Hebdo killings in January?
(5) It featured – and then featured the end of – a new character, Uncle Steve, and banter between Rick (Roiland) and his detested son-in-law Jerry (Chris Parnell).
(6) Gay people have been pointlessly reminded, not that homophobia is unacceptable, but that there exist organised groups that detest them.
(7) But it's fair to say a fondness for sniping games marks me out as a coward who'd rather take potshots from a distance than actually climb down from the tree and enter the fray like a man, a theory backed up by the fact that while I love sniping, I detest "stealth games" (because it's scary when you get caught) and "boss fights" where you have to battle some gargantuan show-off 10 times your height who keeps knocking you on your arse with his tail.
(8) The injustice of the voting system demands people vote against their most detested option more determinedly than for their preferred party – until we get electoral reform.
(9) "Most journalists detest them, so they don't write about them seriously," Orrenius says.
(10) I didn’t know who all of these groups were and I detest any kind of hate group,” the Louisiana congressman told the Times-Picayune newspaper.
(11) "Dislike" is, in fact, far too mild: there's a depth of contempt, a cold ferocity of detestation, that can shock.
(12) Those who leave the left are often those who end up detesting it more: becoming a convert often means being more zealous than existing believers.
(13) They’ve got an agenda to pursue – against the very department they’re in.” Cash earmarked to help people in poor countries will instead be offered to middle-income giants like India and China As much as Patel and Oxley detest the aid-spending target, I cannot see them junking it – not when it was in the Tories’ last election manifesto.
(14) I accept fully that those opposed to this course of action share my detestation of Saddam.
(15) There was a culture of misogyny in some quarters, too, which I detested.
(16) We like everyone to be the same and if they are different we detest them," Delsol said.
(17) He detested Downside, the Benedictine public school, quaintly claiming that the headmaster had "set himself up in opposition to me".
(18) In 2005, he received his country’s highest civilian honour, the presidential medal of freedom, from George W Bush, an incumbent whose views he must have detested.
(19) Maliki, referencing the killing of a prominent cleric in Iraq in 1980, said Iraqis “strongly condemn these detestable sectarian practices and affirm that the crime of executing Sheikh al-Nimr will topple the Saudi regime as the crime of executing the martyr al-Sadr did to Saddam Hussein”.
(20) On 16 August 2007, Ridley rang an agent of the detested state to explore the possibility of a bailout.
Schmuck
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) said some schmuck called Tim Jonze (stupid surname btw) David Bowie – The Next Day An album that's thought-provoking, strange and filled with great songs - listening to The Next Day makes you hope it's not a one-off, that his return continues apace.
(2) After Flight Of The Conchords, she played Paul Rudd 's crudely ambitious assistant in the Steve Carell comedy Dinner For Schmucks and has just voiced characters for Toy Story 3 and the next Shrek movie (one in the eye for the high-school voice coach who said to her, "Oh my God, you have a terrible lisp!").
(3) Among the latter are Judah Friedlander (Roisin Dubh, Fri), best known for his appearances as boorish Frank Rossitano in 30 Rock, and deadpan schmuck Todd Barry (Roisin Dubh, 25 Oct).
(4) Tomorrow, all over the country, "the schmucks" go to the polls.
(5) Mninawa Ntloko, the sports editor of Business Day newspaper, branded them "tiresome vultures", a "mob" and "mean-spirited schmucks" who'd "all gotten it into their thick craniums that SA would make a mess of the World Cup".
(6) Know your Gaelic: A brief guide Yes Sea No Ni hea Hello Dia Duit Goodbye Slán English Béarla Irish Gaeilge He's a total schmuck Is gamal ceart é!
(7) The “Obama is a schmuck” action was an example of how the troll factory is expanding beyond just comments and blogposts to create new kinds of pro-Kremlin content, according to Andrei Soshnikov, a journalist in St Petersburg who was among the first to report on the troll factory and has continued to investigate it.
(8) And I thought, if I can't survive being on stage with someone who can do that, then I'm some kind of schmuck.
(9) if only those schmucks who run the USA team had tried to get Vedad to play for the USA (his parents and sister live in St Louis) but now it's too late.
(10) "The poor schmuck who has to get in on his own has to walk on water," Daniel Saracino, the assistant provost for admissions, told Golden.
(11) The site recently covered an “Obama is a schmuck” rally held by the pro-Kremlin Politkach group of Alexei Mschov, whom the Guardian observed chatting outside Savushkina 55 before walking inside on a recent weekday morning.
(12) They are upset with the 11 guys for being schmucks.
(13) Photograph: Jordan Hoffman for the Guardian Members of the press and their families in the New York area were invited for a Star Wars Day of Play, which I interpreted to mean “don’t be a schmuck and line up in the middle of the night, let Hasbro slip you a gifting bag for attending our event”.