be detestable

Example Sentences

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I think a light blue celeste, which Lord Stafford had, would be detestable, and scarlet is too glaring.

From George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life by Roscoe, E. S.

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

Mamma had made up her mind to be detestable about Julius Bradshaw—that was the long and short of it.

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend

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 Macaulay, Rose, Dame

At any rate, it isn't the kind of a joke I make—it would be detestable.

From Arsene Lupin by Leblanc, Maurice