detestation

Example Sentences

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In my son’s democratic universe, I had hoped they could transcend detestation.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2022

Germany has set aside its traditional detestation for debt to unleash emergency spending, while enabling the rest of the European Union to breach limits on deficits.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2020

“A general sentiment of disgust for the man, and detestation for his principles, fills every decent mind,” reported one local newspaper, while at the Capitol, “his colleagues heaped only scorn and derision on him.”

From Salon • Aug. 3, 2016

And there were several lighter works like Mavis in Las Vegas, inspired by his visit to the city and his detestation of the commercialisation of modern society.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2016

The Fundamentalists required no new reason to detest robots and robot manufacturers; but a new reason such as the Quinn accusation and the Calvin analysis was sufficient to make such detestation audible.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov