What's the difference between detester and hater?

Detester


Definition:

  • (n.) One who detes//

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.

Hater


Definition:

  • (n.) One who hates.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In fairness, “Still can’t pay no attention to a hater”, as the man himself might say... all year.
  • (2) Here, in the profane world of anti-music, I could be a hater and say: "This is where the rock'n'roll dream dies.
  • (3) But the rise of Ukip looks to me to be legitimising a very different view, in which the average English person will be characterised as an avowed Eurosceptic, a fierce opponent of immigration, a hang-'em-and-flog-'em merchant, and a hater of government.
  • (4) Even the most fervent haters of the BBC can only mutter and mumble when Attenborough productions are mentioned.
  • (5) Joe Biden is the alternative Clinton haters have been waiting for | Jeb Lund Read more “If you can’t state why you want the job, then there’s a lot more lucrative opportunities other places,” he said.
  • (6) Luke Sookdeo, a pupil at Perry Beeches Academy, Birmingham, had a word for his "haters" after getting an A in English literature and an A* in drama.
  • (7) The haters cannot get past the relentless self-promotion, and loathe everything BrewDog stands for.
  • (8) "Women-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock-full of power," Plath writes.
  • (9) Supermarket-haters, such as George Monbiot, argue that Tesco is an evil capitalist enterprise that decent folk should avoid at all costs.
  • (10) They say Trump’s a racist and a hater,” Ron said.
  • (11) More Attlee there then than Bevan or Castle, both good haters who were loved - and hated - in return.
  • (12) We are not just haters or lovers of particular weather conditions but perverse creatures, wishing it would be sunny when it rains and rainy when it's sunny.
  • (13) Though many on social media have pointed to the site as being behind Overweight Haters Ltd, it is unclear whether the Slimgur posts are from the cards’ organiser.
  • (14) Saddest of all are the chain-link fences that now ring the plaza, giving the Brutalism haters even more ammunition to tear the thing down.
  • (15) Today, when he delivers his exhaustively trailed autumn statement on the economy , and tomorrow, when possibly the biggest strike since the 20s is expected in response to his public-spending cuts, there should be plenty of opportunities for the Osborne-haters.
  • (16) Nick Griffin knows this much: it doesn't matter how badly the haters try to expose him – his followers feel under siege enough to ignore all that as part of some massive leftwing conspiracy.
  • (17) Nothing came of it but it caused us grave concern.” Salazar concluded with a message for his detractors: “Let the haters hate; we’re going to keep winning through hard work, dedication and fair play.” But the immediate response from Usada and Magness suggests this saga will rumble on for a long while yet.
  • (18) Listen to those people talk, they're haters," he said.
  • (19) Tony Abbott is abusing his office and the cabinet process by pursuing his own anti-wind ideology, enlisting fellow wind haters Joe Hockey to help bring down a whole industry.” Last month Abbott described turbines as “visually awful” , and Hockey had earlier labelled them “utterly offensive” .
  • (20) Beyoncé’s use of “slay” is an additional embrace of the language of the black queer community and, in its repetition, it’s an incantation that can slay haters, slay patriarchy, to slay white supremacy.

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