Detestation Synonyms

dē'tĕ-stā'shən

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Synonyms for Detestation

loathing
Sense of revulsion, distaste, detestation, extreme hatred or dislike.
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aversion
The cause or object of such a feeling:
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abhorrence
One that is disgusting, loathsome, or repellent.
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abomination
Abhorrence; disgust.
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antipathy
Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.
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hate
A person or thing hated
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horror
(Informal) Something very bad, ugly, disagreeable, etc.
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repellence
Alternative form of repellency.
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repellency
The ability to repel; the characteristic of repelling.
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repugnance
Extreme dislike or distaste; aversion; antipathy
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repugnancy
Repugnance.
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repulsion
(Physics) The force that causes particles or bodies to repel one another, as from having the same electric charge or magnetic polarity.
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anathema
By extension, something which is vehemently disliked by somebody.
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bête noire
An object of extreme dislike
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bugbear
A fearsome imaginary creature, especially one evoked to frighten children.
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execration
Something that is cursed or loathed.
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odium
Hatred, esp. of a person or thing regarded as loathsome
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Strong dislike or ill will; hate
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Detestation Sentence Examples

  • Inwardly "he took a remorse of conscience and detestation of mind."

  • The effect of the incident was rather to increase detestation of Giolitti than to damage Crispi.

  • A sense of wrong suffered at their hands may perhaps have mingled with the detestation which he felt towards them on public grounds.

  • This feeling explains his detestation of foreign manners and superstitions, his loathing not only of inhuman crimes and cruelties but even of the lesser derelictions from selfrespect, his scorn of luxury and of art as ministering to luxury, his mockery of the poetry and of the stale and dilettante culture of his time, and perhaps, too, his indifference to the schools of philosophy and his readiness to identify all the professors of stoicism with the reserved and close-cropped puritans, who concealed the worst vices under an outward appearance of austerity.

  • But the prevailing impression we carry away after reading him is that in all his early satires he was animated by a sincere and manly detestation of the tyranny and cruelty, the debauchery and luxury, the levity and effeminacy, the crimes and frauds, which we know from other sources were then rife in Rome, and that a more serene wisdom and a happier frame of mind were attained by him when old age had somewhat allayed the fierce rage which vexed his manhood.

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