be detestable

Yes, Trump’s comments about women, people with disabilities and minorities may be detestable, she said in endorsing him.

Nothing can be worse than to see a bit of Greek, a fragment of Egyptian, an Alhambraic scroll, a Gothic flower, and an Italian husk associated together as one ornament; unless this were done advisedly and in order to meet a very special want, such an ornamental composition would be detestable.

She spent half her time in thinking of beauty, and bravery, and magnanimity; she had a fixed determination to regard the world as a place of brightness, of free expansion, of irresistible action; she thought it would be detestable to be afraid or ashamed.

For though I should like to have seen ancient Athens, or Carthage according to Salamb�, and though I have pined to hear the singers of last century, I know that any other period than this of the world's history would be detestable to live in.

The first is enchantment, which I need not describe, and of which I will speak no more, because it is what everybody knows to be detestable, and nobody ought to know the art thereof.