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
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.
A big newspaper fuss will be detestable for Lady Loudwater.
From The Loudwater Mystery by Jepson, Edgar
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
At any rate, it isn't the kind of a joke I make—it would be detestable.
From Arsene Lupin by Leblanc, Maurice
