detest
verb (used with object)
to feel abhorrence of; hate; dislike intensely.
will detest
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future tenseof detest.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Many will detest the product and despise Chaplin for producing it.
From Time Magazine Archive
All three networks kept putting on people saying, 'The public will detest this,' blatantly calling for the public to respond.
From Time Magazine Archive
The stingy, women ever will detest; Words puppies want;—the lib'ral are the best.
From Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Complete by Jean de La Fontaine
He dislikes me now, when we are married it will be worse, a year hence he will detest me altogether and tell you so, perhaps.'
From Greifenstein by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
For the former, owing to his probity, we entertain no great feelings of enmity: the latter, owing to his cruelty, our country has detested and always will detest.
From Treatises on Friendship and Old Age by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh
