Synonyms for DETEST
dɪˈtɛstde·test

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1. detest

   Abhor is stronger than despise, implying a shuddering recoil, especially a moral recoil. "How many shun evil as inconvenient who do not abhor it as hateful." Trench Serm. in Westm. Abbey xxvi, 297. [Murray's "New English Dictionary"] Detest expresses indignation, with something of contempt. Loathe implies disgust, physical or moral. We abhor a traitor, despise a coward, detest a liar. We dislike an uncivil person. We abhor cruelty, hate tyranny. We loathe a reptile or a flatterer. We abhor Milton's heroic Satan, but we can not despise him.

   Synonyms:
   abhor, abominate, despise, dislike, hate, loathe, nauseate, scorn, shun

   Antonyms:
   admire, approve, covet, crave, desire, enjoy, esteem, esteem, like, love, relish

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1. hate, detestverb

   dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards

   "I hate Mexican food"; "She detests politicians"

   Synonyms:
   detest, hate

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1. detestverb

   Synonyms:
   hate (extremely), abominate, abhor, loathe, nauseate, shrink from, recoil from

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1. detestverb

   Synonyms:
   loathe, despise, abominate, abhor, hate, execrate

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1. List of paraphrases for "detest":

   hate, abhor

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How to use DETEST in a sentence?

1. Thomas Paine:

   Whenever we read the obscene stories, voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortous executions, the unrelenting vindictivenes, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistant that we called it the word of a Demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind, and, for my part, I sincerly detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

2. Lord Byron:

   Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

3. H.L. Mencken:

   I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

4. J. K. Rowling:

   Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

5. Steve Scalise:

   I did n’t know who all of these groups were and I detest any kind of hate group.