be detestable
Example Sentences
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The country, he thought, must be detestable in such vile weather.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola
I have always known him to be detestable, but until recently I thought that he was also detestably and invariably in the right—or, anyhow, that he could not be proved in the wrong.
From Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings by Dame Rose Macaulay
"She expressed her concern lest any of the Africans should be carried off without their free consent; declaring that such a thing would be detestable, and call down the vengeance of Heaven upon the undertakers."
From An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Lydia Maria Francis Child
It proved, when it came, to be detestable; I could not put it to my lips; and Bellairs, who had as much palate as a weevil, was left to finish it himself.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Baroness--You are too complimentary: your cause must be detestable.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
