be detestable
Example Sentences
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A big newspaper fuss will be detestable for Lady Loudwater.
From The Loudwater Mystery by Edgar Jepson
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
It would be detestable to me to marry an heiress, and if I were a girl I should despise a man who was content to live on his wife’s money.”
From The Fortunes of the Farrells by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
Mamma had made up her mind to be detestable about Julius Bradshaw—that was the long and short of it.
From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan
At any rate, it isn't the kind of a joke I make—it would be detestable.
From Arsene Lupin by Maurice Leblanc
