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Meanings of detest people in English

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Usage of detest people in English
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Normally I detest people who want to talk when I'm fishing, but this was different.
All the way
2
How I used to detest people who patted boys on the back and said with a smirk, 'I know your father.'
The Crisis — Volume 01
3
God will aid us by sowing confusion among these detested people.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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Miss Winchelsea detested people who banged about and called their mother "Ma."
The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
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Old Ireland has hated the changing of the guard and detests people like Roy Keane.
The Guardian
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Swithin saw no necessity to laugh; he detested people laughing when he himself perceived no joke.
The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. / The Man Of Property
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Miss Winchelsea detested people who banged about and called their mother "Ma." A young man travelling alone followed.
Twelve Stories and a Dream
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But he, to some extent, detested people-perhapsbecause he was too confident of his own genius-andhe never made a definite effort to gratify them.
The Created Legend
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