be detestable

Example Sentences

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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.

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

I believe these girls are going to be detestable.

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

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

From Arsene Lupin by Leblanc, Maurice

"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