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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
detest .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective treated with contempt
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Examples
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To use a term detested by the fundamentalists, morality is "situational."
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My picture was caricatured, my name detested, my peace harassed.
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston
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My picture was caricatured, my name detested, my peace harassed.
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Paston, George, d. 1936 1902
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The remorseless Shamer, a name detested by the faithful, reproached their cowardice; and the grandson of
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II Various 1887
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The remorseless Shamer, a name detested by the faithful, reproached their cowardice; and the grandson of Mahomet was slain with three-and-thirty strokes of lances and swords.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Shamer, a name detested by the faithful, reproached their cowardice; and the grandson of Mahomet was slain with three-and-thirty strokes of lances and swords.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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The scary part is that central to Stewart's message on Saturday was what one of best media critics around -- the New York University professor Jay Rosen -- calls "the view from nowhere," the same kind of high-minded pooh-pooing of the messy fray of actual democracy, including passion and commitment that involves fighting in the muck of ideas, that the kind of people who gathered on the National Mall once detested from the likes of the punditocracy's naysayer-in-chief, David Broder.
Will Bunch: Sanity, Iraq, and Jon Stewart's "View From Nowhere" Will Bunch 2010
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But Anne’s mother dies, and she inherits the family home in detested Lawrenceville, the town she was so desperate to leave.
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But Anne’s mother dies, and she inherits the family home in detested Lawrenceville, the town she was so desperate to leave.
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Miss Taylor began her career as a child actress and rose to fame in the movies, but it was as herself -- or a melodramatic projection of herself the media dubbed "Liz" a nickname she detested -- that she captured the often outraged attention of the world.
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