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

"No; to carry it on in so clandestine and private a manner as might secure me from the suspicion of that which I know to be detestable, and bound others up from practising."

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

At any rate, it isn't the kind of a joke I make—it would be detestable.

From Arsene Lupin by Leblanc, Maurice

It would be detestable, but it would have to be done.

From Gone to Earth by Webb, Mary Gladys Meredith

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 Macaulay, Rose, Dame