be detestable
Example Sentences
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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 Austin Steward
I believe these girls are going to be detestable.
From The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story by Stanley Davis
It would be detestable, but it would have to be done.
From Gone to Earth by Mary Gladys Meredith Webb
But it would be detestable treachery to the cause of education, of humanity.
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
"She expressed her concern lest any of the Africans should be carried off without their free consent; declaring that such a thing would be detestable, and call down the vengeance of Heaven upon the undertakers."
From An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Lydia Maria Francis Child
