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Princeton's WordNet

  1. despised, detested, hated, scornedadjective

    treated with contempt

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  1. detested

    Detested refers to something or someone that is intensely disliked or abhorred. It involves a strong negative feeling towards something, often associated with disgust or deep disapproval.

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  1. Detested

    of Detest

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of detested in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of detested in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of detested in a Sentence

  1. Oscar Wilde:

    When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

  2. Bruno Julliard:

    We must put in the limelight those who support values that our close to ours, which is the case of Tel Aviv, a city that is often detested by the most radical Israelis.

  3. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891:

    When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

  4. Duke of Wellington:

    We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

  5. Sylvain Charlebois:

    The rationale was economics based, and not focused on the customer, from the get go, customers detested them.

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