be detestable

Example Sentences

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I believe these girls are going to be detestable.

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

I think a light blue celeste, which Lord Stafford had, would be detestable, and scarlet is too glaring.

From George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life by Roscoe, E. S.

"No; to carry it on in so clandestine and private a manner as might secure me from the suspicion of that which I know to be detestable, and bound others up from practising."

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

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

From Arsene Lupin by Leblanc, Maurice

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