be detestable

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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

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

It proved when it came to be detestable; I could not put it to my lips; and Bellairs, who had as much palate as a weevil, was left to finish it himself.

From The Wrecker by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

An itinerant bookseller does not burden himself with a Virgil, with a Horace, but with a new book, even though it be detestable.

From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire