be detestable
Example Sentences
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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.
When Vogler came back he entered the Church, was immediately appointed Court Chaplain, and composed a Miserere which all the world declares to be detestable, being full of false harmony.
From The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Nohl, Ludwig
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
I believe these girls are going to be detestable.
From The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story by Davis, Stanley
The first is enchantment, which I need not describe, and of which I will speak no more, because it is what everybody knows to be detestable, and nobody ought to know the art thereof.
From The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campell A Gentlen, who, tho' Deaf and Dumb, Writes down any Stranger's name at first Sight; by Defoe, Daniel
