Detested

To use a term detested by the fundamentalists, morality is "situational." ❋ Unknown (2005)

My picture was caricatured, my name detested, my peace harassed. ❋ George Paston (N/A)

The remorseless Shamer, a name detested by the faithful, reproached their cowardice; and the grandson of ❋ Various (1887)

The remorseless Shamer, a name detested by the faithful, reproached their cowardice; and the grandson of Mahomet was slain with three-and-thirty strokes of lances and swords. ❋ Edward Gibbon (1765)

Shamer, a name detested by the faithful, reproached their cowardice; and the grandson of Mahomet was slain with three-and-thirty strokes of lances and swords. ❋ Edward Gibbon (1765)

The scary part is that central to Stewart's message on Saturday was what one of best media critics around -- the New York University professor Jay Rosen -- calls "the view from nowhere," the same kind of high-minded pooh-pooing of the messy fray of actual democracy, including passion and commitment that involves fighting in the muck of ideas, that the kind of people who gathered on the National Mall once detested from the likes of the punditocracy's naysayer-in-chief, David Broder. ❋ Will Bunch (2010)

But Anne’s mother dies, and she inherits the family home in detested Lawrenceville, the town she was so desperate to leave. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Miss Taylor began her career as a child actress and rose to fame in the movies, but it was as herself -- or a melodramatic projection of herself the media dubbed "Liz" a nickname she detested -- that she captured the often outraged attention of the world. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And if they are our enemy in time of war, their tongue is "detested" by us, as ours is to them. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This result doesn't mean Salmond is more "detested" than Brown and you know that. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"I find a pleasure in being detested which is inconceivable to your amiable bosom." ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

In ironic contrast, Lord Curzon, Balfour's successor as Foreign Secretary, who "detested" the idea of a Jewish state, put loyalty above personal feelings at San Remo and Paris in arguing manfully for the realization of Prime Minister David Lloyd George's vision of a Jewish state comprised of all its ancient Biblical territories. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mr Griffin, one of two members of the extreme-right party elected to the European Parliament last month, said he actually "detested" fascism. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But the lifers detested Cecil Windwood and, when he approached them with his plan of a wholesale prison break, they laughed at him and turned him away with curses for the stool that he was. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He detested women with a too exuberant vitality and a lack of ... well, of inhibition. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Tobacco he detested, beer he abhorred, and he was never known to drink anything stronger than an occasional light wine at dinner. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They seemed to be holding a council, for he could hear them talking excitedly in the detested tongue of the alien invader. ❋ Unknown (2010)