be detestable
Example Sentences
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The country, he thought, must be detestable in such vile weather.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile
It would be detestable, but it would have to be done.
From Gone to Earth by Webb, Mary Gladys Meredith
I believe these girls are going to be detestable.
From The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story by Davis, Stanley
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.
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
