be detestable
Example Sentences
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"She expressed her concern lest any of the Africans should be carried off without their free consent; declaring that such a thing would be detestable, and call down the vengeance of Heaven upon the undertakers."
From An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Child, Lydia Maria Francis
The country, he thought, must be detestable in such vile weather.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile
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 Wrecker by Stevenson, Robert Louis
It would be detestable to me to marry an heiress, and if I were a girl I should despise a man who was content to live on his wife’s money.”
From The Fortunes of the Farrells by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
A big newspaper fuss will be detestable for Lady Loudwater.
From The Loudwater Mystery by Jepson, Edgar
