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Meanings of detestation in English
Usage of detestation in English
1
At first it irritated me; then I heard it with morbid detestation.
2
She had declared her detestation of dinners, and been heard in silence.
3
Even members of the Academy could not suppress their detestation of him.
4
Because of that my detestation of him became a personal, active thing.
5
It can seem they have an inbuilt detestation for ordinary, flabby humanity.
6
That he acquired a detestation of the relative is a certain fact.
7
The soldier is drilled to fair play, and to detestation of cowardice.
8
His loyalty to those he loved, his detestation of those he hated.
9
Oh, with her there is but one step from flirtation to detestation.
10
We are heartily agreed in our detestation of a civil war.
11
Or else all these minglings were forbidden in detestation of the unnatural vice.
12
Here it is a business of serious danger and general detestation.
13
The Judas kiss is not to be surpassed in human detestation.
14
Weldon had all the detestation of the average healthy being for invalid ways.
15
She threw her hands apart in a gesture of utter detestation.
16
He wondered whether there was in this case a special detestation.
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