detested

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Detested and beloved, the structure was demolished in 1997.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2022

Detested by pretty much everyone but the surrealists, Locus Solus can hardly be called a good novel, but it does give off an exciting crackle of the unfamiliar.

From Slate • Sep. 9, 2015

The first clerihew, written by Bentley at 16 when he was attending a lecture on chemistry: Sir Humphrey Davy Detested gravy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Detested by the churchmen, he naturally came to detest them in his turn.

From Toilers of the Sea by Hugo, Victor

Detested by his pupils, he was a victim to every sort of petty persecution from them, so that cruelty acted and reacted between him and them.

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill