be detestable
Example Sentences
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"No; to carry it on in so clandestine and private a manner as might secure me from the suspicion of that which I know to be detestable, and bound others up from practising."
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
An itinerant bookseller does not burden himself with a Virgil, with a Horace, but with a new book, even though it be detestable.
From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire
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
It would be detestable, but it would have to be done.
From Gone to Earth by Mary Gladys Meredith Webb
I believe these girls are going to be detestable.
From The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story by Stanley Davis
