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Definition of Detested
1. Adjective. Treated with contempt.
Definition of Detested
1. Verb. (past of detest) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Detested
1. detest [v] - See also: detest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detested
Literary usage of Detested
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"He disdained to profess himself the servant of an assembly that detested his
person and trembled at his frown ; he issued his commands, where his request ..."
2. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"A slave he was to this potent drug not less abject than Caliban to Pros pero—his
detested and yet despotic master. Like Caliban, he frets his very ..."
3. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Robert Browning openly and avowedly detested parodies. To one who had asked his
consent to quote a few lines from two of his popular poems to illustrate ..."
4. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"Their obstinacy must be detested by the wise and virtuous; the inevitable ruin
attending it will be unpitied by all, and posterity will execrate their ..."
5. The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States by United States Dept. of State, Francis Wharton, John Bassett Moore (1889)
"barbarous usage by the English in many places towards the Americans should occasion
a retaliation, and an imitation of what ought rather to be detested and ..."
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