be detestable

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When Vogler came back he entered the Church, was immediately appointed Court Chaplain, and composed a Miserere which all the world declares to be detestable, being full of false harmony.

From The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Nohl, Ludwig

"Let them," said the Queen, "be brought away only by their own consent, otherwise the act will be detestable, and bring down the vengeance of heaven upon us."

From Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West by Steward, Austin

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 Jepson, Edgar

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 Hurlbert, William Henry