be detestable
Example Sentences
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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
"That's true," yawned out Beecher; "vetturino work must be detestable."
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
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 have always known him to be detestable, but until recently I thought that he was also detestably and invariably in the right—or, anyhow, that he could not be proved in the wrong.
From Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings by Dame Rose Macaulay
Turgot, the friend of Franklin, objected to this, but M. Deslandes gave him plainly to understand that 'a government which should tolerate such misconduct would be detestable.'
From France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by William Henry Hurlbert
