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Most significantly, it overturned a New York minimum wage law in a decision known as Tipaldo, after its detestable protagonist, the owner of a laundry who had been cheating his laundresses of their legal wages.

Vance is exactly the sort of candidate whom suburban women have, in recent years, found electorally detestable.

From Slate

“He called them all types of names, using derogatory phrases and really describing it as a detestable group and a sinful thing, and I just sort of knew he was talking about me,” Crowley said in an interview.

Jabba, in all his hulking space worminess, was far more detestable.

From Salon

Yes, even detestable speech of that kind should remain as free as possible.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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