Detest - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 12/09/2025

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Detest.

5 letter answer(s) to detest

ABHOR

despised
find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats"

9 letter answer(s) to detest

ABOMINATE

find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats"

8 letter answer(s) to detest

EXECRATE

curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment
Denounces vehemently.
find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats"
to deplore

4 letter answer(s) to detest

HATE

dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards; "I hate Mexican food"; "She detests politicians"
Loathe
Opposite of love
the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action

6 letter answer(s) to detest

LOATHE

find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats"
Hate

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Abhor
Abhor old English jalopy
Abominate
Animosity
Antipathy
At hole
At opening, he can't stand
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Bad feeling?
Be averse to getting into pedalo at headland
Be disgusted by articles - see above
Bigot's emotion
Boatman - to relish, ultimately, or detest
Bowler, perhaps English, can't stand
Bowler, perhaps, English cannot stand
Can't abide
Can't stand
Can't stand gong in calm houses
Can't stand soldiers on violence charge
Can't stomach
Can't take
Considerable violence or hate
Crime motivation
Cross in middle of week over old car, producing curse
Curse
Curse West Country river case
Damn energy-guzzling old banger!
Damn, this is what a senior manager charges?!
Definitely not like sailor to have house by river
Desperate to be a man, I feel hatred
Despise
Despise a failure (but not another 7, by the sound of it)
Despise boss a certain amount
Despise men after act of violence
Detest a bore endlessly detaining husband
Detest being without energy to box
Detest bowler perhaps — and England's opener?
Detest bowler, perhaps — and Essex opener!
Detest crime that involves injuring men
Detest first couple of lowbrow articles
Detest swearword in French article
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Detestation
Director and judge can't stand
Dislike intensely
Dislike not heading for Sahara in expedition
Dislike strongly
Dislike, and then some
Enmity

Execrate
Feel disgust for
Feel great loathing for
Feel hatred for
Find awful
Find repugnant
Hate
Hate a Danish physicist after change of heart
Hate crime disheartened onlooker
Hate having a house in Bangor’s outskirts
Hate in province with rabble rising in the grip of a troublemaker
Hate Sailor Short's guts
Hate turning agent about nothing
Hate violent crime associated with men
Hate with a passion
Hate word in clue that requires alternate letters to be removed
Have an aversion to violent crime by men
Have trouble standing
Henry swallowed strong emotion
High honour in coming in to reduce hate
Hostility from bowler
Husband swallowed strong feelings
Ill will
Intensely dislike
Intensely dislike a smell minister had
Kind of crime
Kind of mail
Loathe
Loathe boat name I concocted
Loathe contributing to church at Easter
Loathe flower box
Loathe how much some directors get paid?
Love's opposite
Men after charge can't stand
More than a peeve
More than antipathy
More than dislike
Motive for some crime
No fond feeling
Not be able to stomach
Not be able to take
Not fancy at all
Not like
Odium
One's taken by the dancing, not love
Oscar inside of machine cannot stand
Regard with hatred
Show enmity toward
Shrink from hunting initially - there's wild boar around
Strongly dislike oath dividing the French
Venom
Very much dislike mania to be different
Wild boar drinking last of punch can't stand
Word before mail or crime
Word on Harry Powell's le

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