be detestable

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It would be detestable to me to marry an heiress, and if I were a girl I should despise a man who was content to live on his wife’s money.”

From The Fortunes of the Farrells by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

I have always known him to be detestable, but until recently I thought that he was also detestably and invariably in the right—or, anyhow, that he could not be proved in the wrong.

From Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings by Macaulay, Rose, Dame

Mamma had made up her mind to be detestable about Julius Bradshaw—that was the long and short of it.

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend

Baroness--You are too complimentary: your cause must be detestable.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

"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 Child, Lydia Maria Francis