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With a deep and abiding detestation of competitive sports, he was naturally bookish.
His loathing of Moguls surpassed even his detestation of Uzbeks, Shias, Afghans and assorted infidels.
She is a poet whose poetic stimuli most often arise from friendship and, in a few striking cases, detestation.
Behind this mentality lies the progressive lobby's detestation of nationhood and Orwellian aspiration to world government.
And they have lately become very vocal about their detestation of ordinary people.
But it seems to me that there might be something else at work as well, the residue of a deeper and much older detestation.
But if you go downtown, Wolf, the detestation of what you see in these pictures is still so evident and it will be so for quite some time.
He cannot believe why a human being would show so much detestation for another human being, who has not even spoken or looked at him.
Yesterday's set of exquisitely correct opinions concluded with a statement about his gut-wrenching detestation of war.
She had not even spoken a word, and yet, Ashley could not help her intense feelings of detestation for her.
He's balanced in his acknowledgement of the world's brutality and his detestation of its cruelty.
By contrast, the Trades Union Congress, driven by detestation for fascism, was more robust.
They are the detestation of the Trout bottom-angler, constantly nibbling away his bait, and tantalising him with vain hopes of a bite.
I see the people of England united in a fierce detestation and defiance of the views and acts of Prussian Junkerism.
When she became 16, she declared her detestation of him and said that he had again made advances to her.
For some inexplicable reason, I found that my odium for a certain Coach Rams significantly outweighs my detestation of Damien Rose.
To promote hatred is to instil detestation, enmity, ill-will and malevolence in another.
L 7KHWHUPV¶KDWUHG·DQG¶KRVWLOLW³· refer to intense and irrational emotions of opprobrium, enmity and detestation towards the target group.
His personal history is inspiring, as is his intellectual brilliance, knowledge of and detestation of fascism, communism and morally repugnant capitalism.
Dixon liked and revered him for his air of detesting everything that presented itself to his senses, and of not meaning to let this detestation become staled by custom.
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I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn.
Even Vaniman could not have used more bitter words to express his detestation for soap as a comestible.
For once, the music of her voice was lost in a discordant cry of detestation.
Thirdly, that they are never set forth as the objects of ridicule, but detestation.
His detestation of the race increased, while yet every nerve was alert to miss no chance.
But there were no feelings of that kind to come in the way of the detestation he felt for Lucy.
Mr. Anderson seems to have a thorough detestation of anything like jobbery.
He turned his gaze on McMahon, and saw there the like virile detestation of himself.
But these were swiftly swallowed up in his horror and detestation of the conduct of bacha.
And yet she felt no resentment, no detestation, no censure, no rebuke.
But the memory of Cheops and his successors was held in detestation.
But as he sat gloating over me, I was supported by a scornful detestation of him that sealed my lips.
It is at about this period that my detestation of Calais knows no bounds.
So Blake was another detestation of Devers, and doubtless for good reason.
The islanders looked upon the people who made this cavalier appropriation of their shores with mingled feelings of fear and detestation.
Because of that my detestation of him became a personal, active thing.
Pain, shame, ire, impatience, disgust, detestation, seemed momentarily to hold a quivering conflict in the large pupil dilating under his ebon eyebrow.
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