Similar words: time-tested, detest, detestable, detestation, aptitude test, tested, attested, contested. Meaning: [dɪ'test] adj. treated with contempt.
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31. They detested each other on sight.
32. See how the peasants who hitherto detested the schools are today zealously setting up evening classes!
33. She also detested the obligatory burka , but found the ankle-length cloak a useful disguise when, years later, she slipped back across the border to establish a clandestine network of girls' schools.
34. The days of national disunity and chaos which the people detested are gone, never to return.
35. She loved Washington,(http://sentencedict.com/detested.html) and detested life on Navy bases overseas.
36. It was no secret that the two detested each other.
37. The freethinker hated formalist; the lover of liberty detested the disciplinarian.
38. In fact, Pierre had never liked nor trusted Becquerel who was part of the political hierarchy that Pierre so detested.
39. He was happy to combine in the same imprecation the two things which he most detested, Prussia and England.
40. She would be sure to make a scene, and he detested scenes of the very kind.
41. A number of the students detested subject but adored teacher.
42. The freethinker hated the formalist ; the lover of liberty detested the disciplinarian.
43. Of course, Republican leaders in Congress have detested the new law.
44. Kelly detested paperwork and court appearances which cut annoyingly into a policeman's off - duty time.
45. Mrs. Cadwallader detested high prices for everything that was not paid in kind.
46. What I detested more than anything else was Hegelianism and the Dialectic.
47. Flies spent their time pestering others. The cows hated them. The horses detested them. The sheep loathed them. Mr. and Mrs. Zukerman were always complaining about them, and putting up screens.
48. Five years ago, during his last government, a man who admitted afterwards that he detested the prime minister, hurled a camera tripod at him in Rome.
49. "A name more thoroughly detested is not to be found in the vocabulary of American politics, " thundered Georgia's Tom Watson, vice-presidential nominee for the upstart "People's Party" in 1896.
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