detested

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The process has long been detested by physicians and patients.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

He "detested his father", according to Neave, and left East Yorkshire for London's fashionable society.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026

A return to the top was a distant dream amid the dramas of two groundshares with Northampton and Birmingham, a detested ownership in Sisu, multiple protests and parliamentary mentions.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

Americans wholly detested the tariffs, which forced up the prices of popular products.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2024

The so-called cootie garages, which Anne and Ernestine now detested, had been the style several years before, and still were worn by girls who hadn’t bobbed their hair.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey