detested

• “To use a term detested by the fundamentalists, morality is "situational.”

  A Moral Philosophy for Progressives

• “My picture was caricatured, my name detested, my peace harassed.”

  Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century

• “The remorseless Shamer, a name detested by the faithful, reproached their cowardice; and the grandson of”

  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II

• “The remorseless Shamer, a name detested by the faithful, reproached their cowardice; and the grandson of Mahomet was slain with three-and-thirty strokes of lances and swords.”

  History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5

• “Shamer, a name detested by the faithful, reproached their cowardice; and the grandson of Mahomet was slain with three-and-thirty strokes of lances and swords.”

  History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5

• “The scary part is that central to Stewart's message on Saturday was what one of best media critics around -- the New York University professor Jay Rosen -- calls "the view from nowhere," the same kind of high-minded pooh-pooing of the messy fray of actual democracy, including passion and commitment that involves fighting in the muck of ideas, that the kind of people who gathered on the National Mall once detested from the likes of the punditocracy's naysayer-in-chief, David Broder.”

  The Huffington Post: Will Bunch: Sanity, Iraq, and Jon Stewart's "View From Nowhere"

• “But Anne’s mother dies, and she inherits the family home in detested Lawrenceville, the town she was so desperate to leave.”

  2010 February « Tales from the Reading Room

• “Miss Taylor began her career as a child actress and rose to fame in the movies, but it was as herself -- or a melodramatic projection of herself the media dubbed "Liz" a nickname she detested -- that she captured the often outraged attention of the world.”

  Boston.com Top Stories

• “And if they are our enemy in time of war, their tongue is "detested" by us, as ours is to them.”

  “I am only a wild girl, and I am afraid of the world....”

• “This result doesn't mean Salmond is more "detested" than Brown and you know that.”

  [salmond] don't count your chickens

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