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

I believe these girls are going to be detestable.

From The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story by Davis, Stanley

Children could at their worst be detestable in their vanity, their posing, their affectation, their unashamed greed.

From Dangerous Ages by Macaulay, Rose, Dame

"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

A big newspaper fuss will be detestable for Lady Loudwater.

From The Loudwater Mystery by Jepson, Edgar