be detestable
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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
It would be detestable, but it would have to be done.
From Gone to Earth by Mary Gladys Meredith Webb
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
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 E. S. Roscoe
Mamma had made up her mind to be detestable about Julius Bradshaw—that was the long and short of it.
From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan
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