Normally I detest people who want to talk when I'm fishing, but this was different.

How I used to detest people who patted boys on the back and said with a smirk, 'I know your father.'

God will aid us by sowing confusion among these detested people.

Miss Winchelsea detested people who banged about and called their mother "Ma."

Old Ireland has hated the changing of the guard and detests people like Roy Keane.

Swithin saw no necessity to laugh; he detested people laughing when he himself perceived no joke.

Miss Winchelsea detested people who banged about and called their mother "Ma." A young man travelling alone followed.

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.