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DETESTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Treated with dislike or contempt
Synonyms:
despised; detested; hated; scorned
Classified under:
Similar:
unloved (not loved)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb detest
Context examples:
Alas! Why did they preserve so miserable and detested a life?
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
It seemed to refine him, to remove from him much of the dross of flesh and the too animal-like vigor that lured her while she detested it.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The past appeared to me in the light of a frightful dream; yet the vessel in which I was, the wind that blew me from the detested shore of Ireland, and the sea which surrounded me, told me too forcibly that I was deceived by no vision and that Clerval, my friend and dearest companion, had fallen a victim to me and the monster of my creation.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
For myself, there was one reward I promised myself from my detested toils—one consolation for my unparalleled sufferings; it was the prospect of that day when, enfranchised from my miserable slavery, I might claim Elizabeth and forget the past in my union with her.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
