Usually means: Strongly disliking something or someone.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word detesting:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. detesting: Merriam-Webster
  2. detesting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. detesting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Detesting, detesting: Wordnik
  5. detesting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. detesting: Wiktionary
  7. Detesting, detesting: Dictionary.com
  8. detesting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Detesting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Detesting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. detesting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. detesting: FreeDictionary.org
  13. detesting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. detesting: Legal dictionary

(Note: See detest as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (detest)

verb:  (transitive) To dislike (someone or something) intensely; to loathe.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.
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