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detestable

[ dih-tes-tuh-buhl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

deserving to be detested; abominable; hateful.
Synonyms: vile, odious, loathsome, abhorrent, execrable

detestable

/ dɪˈtɛstəbəl /

1375–1425; late Middle English < Middle French < Latin dētestābilis, equivalent to dētest ( ārī ) to detest + -ābilis -able

He denounced slavery as a “barbaric and detestable crime” in 1860.

That much of this division falls along racial lines is detestable to me.

Journey to the End of the Night does not offer readers much more than nihilism as a response to a detestable world.

The rotten economy remains detestable but the stimulus program is working fine for their key constituencies.

It was monstrous that this English damask rose should fall a prey to so detestable a person as the Comte de Lussigny.

Seeing he hath done all these detestable things, he shall surely die, his blood shall be upon him.

Thy foreseeing wisdom takes care to send infatuation upon these detestable men who are so dangerous to us.

He had been known to make away with the materials of Lolly's detestable occupation when he got the chance.

He will blush, then, if he thinks he has rendered himself hateful and detestable in their eyes.

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