detest
verb (used with object)
to feel abhorrence of; hate; dislike intensely.
had detested
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past perfectof detest.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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And he built an entire coaching philosophy around the word “no,” rejecting sometimes-sadistic football rituals that he had detested as a player.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2018
He had detested Tom, but he had never gone the length of wishing him dead.
From A Maid of the Silver Sea by John Oxenham
She remembered that Lady Anne had detested Lady Iniscrone to the extent that she would never have her inside the house.
From Mary Gray by Katharine Tynan
She remembered a certain look in his face which she had detested.
From The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Mrs. Franklin shook her head; through her whole life she had detested cologne.
From Horace Chase by Constance Fenimore Woolson
