be detestable

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I have always known him to be detestable, but until recently I thought that he was also detestably and invariably in the right—or, anyhow, that he could not be proved in the wrong.

From Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings by Macaulay, Rose, Dame

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

If this were done designedly to use always the best, this unhappy temper would still be detestable, as it must check the course of speaking and extinguish the heat of thought by delay and diffidence.

From The Training of a Public Speaker by Kleiser, Grenville

I hated the idea of a war between any of the great powers, and that any of them should be dragged into a war by Servia would be detestable.

From The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe by Various

But it would be detestable treachery to the cause of education, of humanity.

From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir