Usage examples (31)

• One of the most-frequent targets for my detestation is California chardonnay — which is often guilty of all three infractions.
• Nay, we not only behaved as having no concern for him, but as loathing him, and having him in detestation.
• Rather than regarding homosexual practice with "abhorrence" and "detestation" - as did George Washington and most everyone until recent years - Obama has euphemistically...
• And it would lead to the kind of detestation that would include building debris, coffins, sewage, a giant stagnation pound, maybe a million people homeless.