be detestable

Example Sentences

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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

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 believe these girls are going to be detestable.

From The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story by Davis, Stanley

At any rate, it isn't the kind of a joke I make—it would be detestable.

From Arsene Lupin by Leblanc, Maurice

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