(n.) The act of detesting; extreme hatred or dislike; abhorrence; loathing.
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.
Hate
Definition:
(n.) To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to detest; as, to hate one's enemies; to hate hypocrisy.
(n.) To be very unwilling; followed by an infinitive, or a substantive clause with that; as, to hate to get into debt; to hate that anything should be wasted.
(n.) To love less, relatively.
(v.) Strong aversion coupled with desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; as exercised toward things, intense dislike; hatred; detestation; -- opposed to love.
Example Sentences:
(1) She read geography at Oxford, where Benazir Bhutto (a future prime minister of Pakistan, assassinated in 2007) introduced May to her future husband, Philip May: "I hate to say this, but it was at an Oxford University Conservative Association disco… this is wild stuff.
(2) He had links to networks including the Hammerskin Nation and was involved in an underground music scene often referred to as "white power music" or "hate rock".
(3) The education secretary's wife, Sarah Vine, a columnist, said her son William, nine, and daughter Beatrice, 11, now realise how much their father is hated for his position in government because other children tell them in the playground.
(4) I went to a reasonably good school, though I think I hated the headmaster just as much as he hated me.
(5) Free speech has protected hate speech, and opponents of censorship have consistantly defended the rights of unscrupulous populists and incendiarists.
(6) And of course, as the articles are shared far and wide across the apparently much-hated web, they become gospel to those who read them and unfortunately become quasi-religious texts to musicians of all stripes who blame the internet for everything that is wrong with their careers.
(7) The US started down this course during the Sony hack last year, and in this case, transparency might be the best deterrent in the future – which, by the way, is something both Snowden and the Snowden-hating national security blog Lawfare argued on Monday.
(8) One tip was that he should not mention he was flying to Germany as "obviously" the environmentalists "hate short-haul flights".
(9) We hate the police, hate the government, got no opportunities ... Manchester was like a bloodbath.
(10) I think that those who go there, to Isis, they hate Russia for the conditions they have to endure to live,” Nazarov’s brother says.
(11) "And of course it's the kind of thing that leftwing pressure groups hate.
(12) The genius of a democracy governed by the rule of law, our democracy, is that it both empowers the majority through the ballot box, and constrains the majority, its government, so that it is bound by law.” Turnbull added: “Why does Daesh [another term for Islamic State] hate us?
(13) The worst purveyors of hate, they’re emboldened by this election and they’re out in force.
(14) All of which would be perfectly normal (after all, if there's anything valencianos love more than blowing off their fingers, it's complaining about their team) but for one thing: it was only just after half past nine and there was still an hour to go against hated rivals Real Madrid.
(15) Corbyn’s ‘new politics’ is neither hateful nor pure: it’s complicated | John Harris Read more Their dilemma is plain: if they make a stand against what is happening, they stand accused of disloyalty by Corbyn’s supporters; but if they go along with it, they are complicit in Labour’s probable disintegration when voters realise the party has been taken over by people they can never vote for.
(16) Of course they have… so they must be doing it because they hate you!
(17) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(18) Listen to Stoopid Symbol Of Woman Hate or Can't Stand Up For 40-Inch Busts (both songs were inspired by a hatred of sexist advertising) and you can hear Amon Duul and Hawkwind scaring the living shit out of Devo and Clock DVA.
(19) At first Shevchenko hated the idea of protesting topless.
(20) It was his story, and lately I have come to hate stories.