Detestation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DETESTATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• extreme dislike
• intense dislike
• a detested person or thing
• The act of detesting; extreme hatred or dislike; abhorrence; loathing.
• hate coupled with disgust
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• extreme hatred or dislik; abhorrence, loathing

Words related to DETESTATION

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Words that contain DETESTATION

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How to use DETESTATION in a sentence

• This singular man inspires no antipathy even amongst those who might hold him in the greatest detestation.
• So great was their detestation of experimental science, that they thought they had gained a great advantage when the Accademia del Cimento was suppressed.
• And thus we left the wretch pleased with the conceit of our admiring his magnificence, which rather merited our scorn and detestation.
• Horror, detestation, revenge, inexpressible longings to shake off the evil, and a persuasion that in this case all effort was powerless, filled his soul even to bursting.
• The present struggle can expect nothing but detestation from all who are not lost to duty and honor, while the people of France must cover it with curses.
• In ours, the general contempt of the people is as fatal as their detestation.
• In their detestation of one crime they committed a worse one.
• He ate not a little of it before them all, in detestation of their wicked superstitions and ill-founded fears.
• The Whigs, among whom I was reared, detested Derby with the peculiar detestation which partisans always feel for a renegade.
• My detestation, I may say abhorrence, of that event is not at all diminished by your account of it.
• The peculiar detestation felt by the Church for the doctrines of the Manichaeans was perhaps partly due to the fact that they were in spirit Asiatic.
• Indeed, he could then never hope to succeed, except on the double supposition of extraordinary popularity in his own person and widespread detestation of the existing government.
• The independence of the Greek nation, which it foretold, has come to pass, and the massacre, by inspiring a deeper detestation of their oppressors, did much to promote that event.
• And therefore he is the person who ought to be held in detestation, banished, and put to death, and not his instructor.
• For the Divorce Court and all its works and ways he had nothing but detestation.
• The two men were always overwhelmingly cordial when they met, in order to disguise their mutual detestation.
• He would not even pass through Johannesburg when convenience suggested his doing so, but made circuits by road to avoid the place of detestation.
• I was aware that he entertained a cordial detestation of the ship, and believed that, should a fair chance of escape present itself, he would embrace it willingly.
• Hence it follows that sins are the remote matter of Penance, as a matter, not for approval, but for detestation, and destruction.
• Hoadley, father of the present bishop of Winchester, added, that the prisoner was a good protestant, and frequently expressed his detestation of king-killing principles.
• Silent pity and sorrow for the victim should mingle with our detestation of the guilt.
• I would wish Caesar and Catiline, Xerxes and Alexander, Charles and Peter, huddled together in obscurity or detestation.
• I have been weak and bitter enough during all these years to be meanly comforted by your stanch championship of me, and your detestation of the wrong your father did me.
• She had declared her detestation of dinners, and been heard in silence.
• After that both felt that mutual detestation had set in.
• That he acquired a detestation of the relative is a certain fact.
• His attitude is too sternly impersonal for him to be moved by any emotions, whether of detestation or charity, as regards the Hun.
• His name is held in great detestation at Stratford now, as every traveller is told his story.
• I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation.
• Now, on this fateful night, in one of the semi-insane outbursts which I had learned to dread, she poured out her loathing and detestation of her brother.

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