detestation
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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
The old Hollywood’s history of infatuation with newspapering met the new Hollywood’s detestation of Nixon.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2017
“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 Briony could not be afraid now of Robbie; better by far to let him become the object of her detestation and disgust.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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