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detestably

  • a word derived from detestable.
    detestable
    adjective
    deserving to be detested; abominable; hateful.

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This time the unknown was detestably brief, writing merely: “Miss Dean: “I hope you lose the game next Saturday.

From Marjorie Dean, High School Junior by Pauline Lester

Besides their inherent unsuitability the premises were detestably insanitary and the floor space overcrowded to its utmost capacity.

From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 by Henry Baerlein

“I’m not the only married man who sometimes forgets that he is no longer a bachelor,” he said detestably.

From The Phantom Lover by Ruby M. (Ruby Mildred) Ayres

The Suburbs of this City are almost all Vineyards; but why, I know not, for the Wine is so detestably bad, that they give it away in a manner for nothing.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz

These imps are said to be kept in pots or other vessels that stink detestably.

From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James Grant

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