be detestable

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"Let them," said the Queen, "be brought away only by their own consent, otherwise the act will be detestable, and bring down the vengeance of heaven upon us."

From Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West by Steward, Austin

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

Turgot, the friend of Franklin, objected to this, but M. Deslandes gave him plainly to understand that 'a government which should tolerate such misconduct would be detestable.'

From France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by Hurlbert, William Henry

If the fictions and artifices of vanity be detestable, the concealment of our good actions is surely not without guilt.

From Jane Talbot by Brown, Charles Brockden

At any rate, it isn't the kind of a joke I make—it would be detestable.

From Arsene Lupin by Leblanc, Maurice