Sample sentences for DETESTABLE

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Definition

deserving intense dislike

I think Umbridge is the most detestable character in the Harry Potter books.

detestable = deserving intense dislike

Jefferson described the legislation as detestable.

detestable = offensive (deserving intense dislike)

If it's not too late, I want to eliminate my more detestable vices before I get married.

detestable = offensive (deserving intense dislike)

  [speaking to the tomb that holds Juliet]
  Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,
  Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth,
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

detestable = hated or horrible

Most detestable death, by thee beguil'd,
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

detestable = hated

There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something down-right detestable.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
Romain Rolland
A hopeless, helpless loafer, useful to no one and detestable to himself—this was what the treachery of the Bellegardes had made of him.
Henry James -- The American
Kill me if thou wilt, detestable Huron; I will go no further.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans
Could anything be more detestable?
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
Finalement, they leave that detestable apartment in Madrid!
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
What a detestable boy Tibby was!
E.M. Forster -- Howards End
It would be easy to lie to you; but the truth is I think it detestable.
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
Scarcely had I set foot in Paris ere I had fresh evidence of the detestable interest taken by this Wilson in my concerns.
Edgar Allan Poe -- William Wilson
But this seemed to her to be a horror—a wantonness, all the more detestable to her, because she so detested Florence.
Ford Madox Ford -- The Good Soldier
Well, what is this immediate grasp of a situation as a whole supposed to be if not the intuition they find so detestable?
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
He didn't suffer, as many "honest men" do, from the detestable righteousness that diminishes their virtue.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
He was in a horrible, in a detestable humor—to see the ocean stretching interminably before his eyes.
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
How detestable, how detestable they are!
Virginia Woolf -- Mrs. Dalloway

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