detestable

Decades of lionizing men like Nile Jarvis have made his detestable personality not just easy to spot, but queasily appealing.

Eliot would have been incapable of the kind of remark one comes on regularly in Woolf’s diary: “The fact is the lower classes are detestable.”

As a former Houstonian, I can attest that the only thing more detestable than a roach is a flying roach.

"Knowing the vulgarity of the old world, today I try to avoid being listened to by the new world – so that I don't come across as detestable," he told the court.

As the bored trust fund kid Tara, Lohan drew from her experiences withering away in the California sun to craft a character who was detestable but always sympathetic.