be detestable

Example Sentences

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A big newspaper fuss will be detestable for Lady Loudwater.

From The Loudwater Mystery by Jepson, Edgar

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

But it would be detestable treachery to the cause of education, of humanity.

From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

When Vogler came back he entered the Church, was immediately appointed Court Chaplain, and composed a Miserere which all the world declares to be detestable, being full of false harmony.

From The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Nohl, Ludwig

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 Serbia would be detestable.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)