detestable
Example Sentences
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Macron said the royal visit likely would have become their target, which risked creating a “detestable situation.”
From Seattle Times
“All right, understandable. Is it a detestable act? Yes. You don’t have to like him. You can hate him. But he is sick.”
From Washington Post
In “Bull— Jobs,” his 2018 book based on a viral essay, he probed the question of why so many of us seem to go to work only to do meaningless tasks we find detestable.
From Los Angeles Times
“Unfortunately, the answers included detestable methods, and unhappily today we are a Russian colony.”
From New York Times
There is no longer even a thought of dominance, and we are now begging for energy help from foreign nations, many of whom find us detestable.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
