| Detesting, as I did, tranquillity, I used to send my man-servant to copy the telegrams. |
| There is a difference between hating something and detesting it. |
| In such conflicts, one knows one's adversaries only too well and one has personal reasons for detesting them. |
| We also might try not detesting strangers because of how they choose to dress, look and speak. |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky stayed there briefly, detesting the subversive pro-Polish sentiment of what was the third-largest city in the tsarist empire. |
| Dixon liked and revered him for his air of detesting everything that presented itself to his senses, and of not meaning to let this detestation become staled by custom. |
