verb
definition
To dislike intensely; to loathe.
definition
To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.
Examples of detest in a Sentence
You know how the children at the Institution detest it.
Though I detest getting back to a city, business calls and I respond.
Now I hate new music from the 80's, I absolutely detest it.
While it is easy to understand why students would detest the implementation of school uniforms on campus, many people might be surprised to learn that some parents and teachers are against school uniforms as well.
Do you prefer infrequent shampoos but detest oily hair?
I thoroughly detest Mark E. Smith, for example - a nasty phony, in my opinion.
But the history of mid-19thcentury music is unintelligible until we face the fact that, when the anti-Wagnerian storm was already at its height, Wagner was still fighting for the recognition of music which was most definite just where it realized with ultra-Meyerbeerian brilliance all that Wagner had already begun to detest.
Sincerity and honesty go hand in hand for Scorpios; they will literally detest you if they find even a whiff of dishonesty about you.
His capacity to speak German with the king would alone have made Sir Robert detest him.
It was in reference to this incident that Pope, whose Catholic rearing made him detest the abettor of the Revolution and the champion of William of Orange, wrote in the Dunciad- "Earless on high stands unabash'd Defoe" - though he knew that the sentence to the pillory had long ceased to entail the loss of ears.
Living in the grossly animal court of the empress Elizabeth, bound to a husband whom she could not but despise and detest, surrounded by suitors, and entirely uninfluenced by religion, Catherine became and remained perfectly immoral in her sexual relations to men.
Some people hang on every word Jakob writes, whereas some detest his apparent omniscience regarding the world wide web.
It was convenient that the old nobility should detest the upstart, and that the commons should imagine him to be the person responsible for the demands for money required for the royal wars.