Detest is valid Scrabble Word

Is detest a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is detest valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
7 points in Scrabble
7 points in WWF

Definitions for DETEST in dictionary:

VERB:

to hate intensely
dislike intensely
To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.
To hate intensely; to abhor; to abominate; to loathe; as, we detest what is contemptible or evil.
dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to dislike intensely

Words related to DETEST

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Words that contain DETEST

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How to use DETEST in a sentence

His studies led him to detest war as much as did Lord Aberdeen, and he was the invariable advocate of peace.
He is a clever fish-hunter, and the fishermen, knowing the appetite of this keen rival of theirs, detest him and destroy him.
But out, alas! yonder comes one to me To hinder death, when I detest to live.
Now I have them in my power without number, and I detest them all.
Much as I despise and detest the class of slave-traders, whom I regard as the vilest wretches on earth, I must do this man the justice to say that he seemed to have some feeling.
They follow while they detest him, and are at once his victims and his accomplices.
Assuredly, if they give me to Sarum I shall hate Sarum even more than I detest him now.
Energy is a noble quality, and we may admire its exhibition even though we detest the cause which has called it forth.
I like an open countenance in a servant, but I detest a mouth that looks like a mere burial ground for cold chicken.
He seemed to detest the Wachners! When he met them at the Casino, the most he would do was to incline his head coldly towards them.

Is there anything which girls detest as they do this everyday work? Every day? Three times a day, at least, it must be done in most houses, and somebody must do it.
It would be hypocrisy to remain here and smile welcome to him when I hate the sight of his physiognomy and detest the sound of his name.
She will be dull when you are merry, and will make you detest her merriment when you are moody.
Miss Beth, I hate myself for my cowardice far more than I detest my ghastly countenance.
Now I detest them all, and long to be out of Afghanistan for ever.
The attraction of waiting and doing nothing is intense for those who live in thought and detest action.
I wish she could establish herself as a lecturer, though there is nothing I detest more ardently than lectures.
They esteem the people of England and France equally, and equally detest the governing powers of both.
I detest his gifts, and him So honor as the thing which most I scorn.
She wondered how Marian had the temerity to go calmly to work with four girls whom she detested, and who in turn must heartily detest her.
Disorder, fretfullness, antagonism, and misery, pervading the house, compel its members to detest each other.
We should never detest and shun them as objectionable and unworthy.
He must not, while loving and clinging to one form of religion, permit himself to detest all others.
Beware lest ye barter away the River that is life indeed for that which the souls of the pure-hearted detest.
I should detest myself if I were to be the cause of so much bloodshed.
For these thy prevailing diseases are not on account of sins, but they are to make thee detest this world and know that there is no rest and composure in this temporal life.
Beware that I do not write to you a fourth time to tell you that I detest you.
Harold Hazlewood was intensely proud of him, though he professed to detest his profession.
It is a covenant of love between human beings who instinctively detest one another.
Thou art hateful to me, and I detest thy bitter speech.

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