Crossword-Solution: DETESTED 8 letters, 18 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Detested imp. & p. p. of Detest

We have 18 clues for the answer “DETESTED”

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Viewed with contempt 1 answer
Thought the worst of 1 answer
Really could not stand 1 answer
Heartily disliked. 1 answer
Greatly hated 1 answer
Disliked intensely 1 answer
Considered revolting 1 answer
Couldn't abide 2 answers
Abominated. 3 answers
Abhorred 4 answers
Couldn't stomach 4 answers
Loathed 5 answers
Execrated 5 answers
Couldn't take 6 answers
Couldn't stand 8 answers
Hated 15 answers
despised 60 answers
Infamous 70 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DETESTED (5)

Within, the young woman lay upon a filthy sleeping mat, resigned, through utter hopelessness to whatever fate lay in store for her until the opportunity arrived which would permit her to free herself by the only means which now seemed even remotely possible—the hitherto detested act of self-destruction.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1995
Little need to show that this detested family name had long been anathematised by Saint Antoine, and was wrought into the fatal register.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994
She would not consent to remain with Edna, for Monsieur Ratignolle was alone, and he detested above all things to be left alone.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories Kate Chopin 1994
Yes, my young friends, the tear of compassion shall fall for the fate of Charlotte, while the name of La Rue shall be detested and despised.
Charlotte Temple Susanna Rowson 2006
But since he was obliged to give up hopes of Mary Garland, Providence owed him a compensation, and he had fits of angry sadness in which it seemed to him that to attest his right to sentimental satisfaction he would be capable of falling in love with a woman he absolutely detested, if she were the best that came in his way.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006

Quotes with DETESTED (3)

I am asking you to marry me because I love you,” he said, “because I cannot imagine living my life without you. I want to see your face in the morning, and then at night, and a hundred times in between. I want to grow old with you, I want to laugh with you, and I want to sigh to my friends about how managing you are, all the while secretly knowing I am the luckiest man in town.”“What?” she demanded. He shrugged. “A man’s got to keep up appearances. I’ll be universally deteste…
Julia Quinn It's in His Kiss
I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.
Christopher Hitchens Hitch-22: A Memoir
Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stages of their adolescence. A certain streak of genius makes an ominous impression on them, for there exists a deep gulf between genius and the teaching profession. Anyone with a touch of genius seems to his teachers a freak from the very first. As far as teachers are concerned, they define young geniuses as those who are bad, disrespectful, smoke at fourteen, fall in love at fift…
Hermann Hesse Beneath the Wheel
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 26 times in crossword archives (1953–2020).