be detestable

Example Sentences

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The country, he thought, must be detestable in such vile weather.

From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile

And believe me when I say that the moment I saw you, I knew that my conduct was going to be detestable.

From The Puppet Crown by MacGrath, Harold

I hated the idea of a war between any of the great powers, and that any of them should be dragged into a war by Serbia would be detestable.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)

If the fictions and artifices of vanity be detestable, the concealment of our good actions is surely not without guilt.

From Jane Talbot by Brown, Charles Brockden

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