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
A big newspaper fuss will be detestable for Lady Loudwater.
From The Loudwater Mystery by Edgar Jepson
Baroness--You are too complimentary: your cause must be detestable.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
The country, he thought, must be detestable in such vile weather.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola
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
