be detestable
Example Sentences
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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 Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
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
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
"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 Burke, Edmund
"That's true," yawned out Beecher; "vetturino work must be detestable."
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James
