detestable
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"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.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2025
Jabba, in all his hulking space worminess, was far more detestable.
From Salon • May 4, 2024
And how a beloved author could have been a detestable human.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2023
It is not a scarlet letter enough for me that detestable owners are merely forced — or encouraged — to sell teams they ruined in myriad ways.
From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2023
There again was the delight, the courage, that is most admirable in the Karhidish spirit—and in the human spirit—and though I could not share it with him, to deny it would be a detestable act.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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