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detestation

/dee-te-stey-shuhn/US // ˌdi tɛˈsteɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌdiːtɛsˈteɪʃən) //

憎恨,憎恶,厌恶,厌恶感

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : abhorrence; hatred.
    • : a person or thing detested.

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Examples

  • Hostility to the non-urban regions includes a detestation of suburbia.

  • As he was carried along he made his will, in which he bequeathed his detestation of popery to his friends and brethren.

  • Into that game Michael poured all he felt of savage detestation for everything that the Modern side stood for.

  • He therefore urged the Achaeans not only to decline the offer, but to hold Eumenes in detestation for thinking of making it.

  • But you are exhausted; and notwithstanding my detestation of that infernal tyrant, your master, I am a humane man.

  • She and Lady Ralegh had 'an ancient acquaintance,' which had resulted in mutual detestation.