Object

• war: It has to be understood that there are communities which naturally detest war but still fear for their lives and safety.

• man: If I didn't so personally detest the man, I might call him my one triumph.

• contact: He reacts badly to orders when he is agitated and he detests physical contact.

• people: For those who detest such people being allowed on screen, just being themselves, here's an awkward question.

• everything: They will still attack us because they detest everything we have and stand for and the freedoms we have.

• way: I detest that new way of having some songs on there which you cannot get anywhere else!

Subject

• majority: Unfortunately a lot of other people decide to do the same and you end up with an MP who is detested by the majority.

Adjective complement

• most: What I detest most about them is that they poisoned the good name of modernism for the entire century.

Modifying Another Word

• utterly: He had turned from such things and utterly detested them.

• absolutely: Now I hate new music from the 80's, I absolutely detest it.

• thoroughly: I thoroughly detest Mark E. Smith, for example - a nasty phony, in my opinion.

• really: We were now in the throes of winter, a time I really detested at sea.

• always: I've always detested this band of smug mature students.

• so: He probably actually was one, otherwise he would not have been so detested by mainstream religion of his time.

Used with why or when

• what: But it arrived at exactly the right moment, especially for those who claimed to detest what they thought it stood for.

Present participle complement

• have: I had always detested having to stand up and make speeches in public.

Preposition: by

• majority: Unfortunately a lot of other people decide to do the same and you end up with an MP who is detested by the majority.