be detestable
Example Sentences
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Children could at their worst be detestable in their vanity, their posing, their affectation, their unashamed greed.
From Dangerous Ages by Dame Rose Macaulay
If the fictions and artifices of vanity be detestable, the concealment of our good actions is surely not without guilt.
From Jane Talbot by Charles Brockden Brown
But it would be detestable treachery to the cause of education, of humanity.
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
I hated the idea of a war between any of the great powers, and that any of them should be dragged into a war by Serbia would be detestable.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill
It proved, when it came, to be detestable; I could not put it to my lips; and Bellairs, who had as much palate as a weevil, was left to finish it himself.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
