Definition of Detest

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Definition of Detest
	Detest To witness against; to denounce; to condemn. To hate intensely; to abhor; to abominate; to loathe; as, we detest what is contemptible or evil. Related Definitions: Abhor, Abominate, Against, As, Condemn, Contemptible, Denounce, Detest, Evil, Hate, Intensely, Is, Loathe, Or, To, We, What, Witness

Detest Quotations

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
Nelson Mandela

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Jonathan Swift

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Stephen Leacock

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
Noam Chomsky

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Lord Byron

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
Lord Byron

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
Virginia Woolf

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
H. L. Mencken

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Alexander Pope

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
Nicolas De Chamfort

Detest Translations

detest in German is verabscheuen
detest in Italian is odio, avere in orrore
detest in Norwegian is avsky
detest in Spanish is renegar, aborrecer, detestar

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