be detestable
Example Sentences
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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
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
The country, he thought, must be detestable in such vile weather.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile
It would be detestable, but it would have to be done.
From Gone to Earth by Webb, Mary Gladys Meredith
If the fictions and artifices of vanity be detestable, the concealment of our good actions is surely not without guilt.
From Jane Talbot by Brown, Charles Brockden
