be detestable

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If the fictions and artifices of vanity be detestable, the concealment of our good actions is surely not without guilt.

From Jane Talbot by Brown, Charles Brockden

It would be detestable, but it would have to be done.

From Gone to Earth by Webb, Mary Gladys Meredith

"Let them," said the Queen, "be brought away only by their own consent, otherwise the act will be detestable, and bring down the vengeance of heaven upon us."

From Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West by Steward, Austin

I hated the idea of a war between any of the great powers, and that any of them should be dragged into a war by Servia would be detestable.

From The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe by Various

"That's true," yawned out Beecher; "vetturino work must be detestable."

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James