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That gives you, I think, a very vivid example of the way in which some intellectuals detest democracy.

“I absolutely detest the investment banking industry,” he says.

In a Fox News survey, and that network knows its Republicans, they dislike her as thoroughly as they detest Obama.

I do not hate the Palestinians, but I detest most of their leaders and their political culture.

He can desire and wish only what he judges advantageous for himself; he can not love pain nor detest pleasure.

And as men of learning are conservative in their sympathies, so they generally are fond of peace and detest war.

They pay their addresses to the same mistress; but they cordially detest each other.

The leaders mutually despise and detest one another, and universally endeavour to deceive and supplant each other.

"I detest this voyage to Naples," he wrote to St. Vincent, two days before reaching the port.