He was required to "abjure, curse and detest" those opinions. I admire and detest it at the same time. Mandaeans do not practice asceticism and detest circumcision. It was simply that they detest the way we depicted them. Amelioration is sometimes quite another thing, and sometimes I detest. He grew to detest his wife, whom he married mainly because of social constraints. Being fastidious self-cleaners, cats detest their own waste and instinctually bury their urine and feces. I detest the notion of the inward looking group. He has to kindle detest as well as sympathy. She began to detest the Japanese and secretly planned to escape on two occasions. Arabs writing "an Arab, a nation whom they detest". Most free-market thinkers detest subsidy and intervention because they waste resources. Because they are the new planners, corporations detest risk, requiring steady economic and stable markets. I pretty much detest the comics industry. Ponni starts to detest Kumaran because of her new-found tasks.