detested
Meaning
of Detest
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El Supremo Dictador Francia detested the political culture of the old regime and considered himself a revolutionary.
Even then, he stubbornly did what he wanted and refused to listen to doctors, indeed he detested them, because they wanted to persuade him to stop eating roast meat, as was his wont, and to be content with boiled meat."
Clay detested Jackson and had said of him, "I cannot believe that killing 2,500 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies for the various, difficult, and complicated duties of the Chief Magistracy."
Dubois unavailingly forbade Conservatoire students to attend, and the conductor's friend and former teacher Camille Saint-Saëns was prominent among those who detested the piece.
Augusta would have none of it, and detested Bismarck thereafter, Steinberg, 2011, pp. 87–88.
He detested falsity and believed in individual freedom more thoroughly than any man I have ever known.