Words similar to detest
Example sentences for: detest
How can you use “detest” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Isn't this the sort of thing we used to detest when the Soviets did it?
Testimony and detest are both based on Latin testis `witness, testicle.
Everyone seems to detest legal gambling--everyone, that is, except the public.
The root sense of testimony , then, is `a laying of the testes on the evidence table' and of detest is to `hate to the extent of losing one's testicles.
The leaders of the Band socialize with the Jocks--before he was expelled last year, Band leader Newton Gingrich briefly challenged Clinton for Most Popular--but rank-and-file Bandits detest the Jocks and Poms.