be detestable
Example Sentences
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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 Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
I believe these girls are going to be detestable.
From The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story by Davis, Stanley
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 Wrecker by Stevenson, Robert Louis
At any rate, it isn't the kind of a joke I make—it would be detestable.
From Arsene Lupin by Leblanc, Maurice
If this were done designedly to use always the best, this unhappy temper would still be detestable, as it must check the course of speaking and extinguish the heat of thought by delay and diffidence.
From The Training of a Public Speaker by Kleiser, Grenville
