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detestable
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    Finalement, they leave that detestable apartment in Madrid!†  (source)
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    Detestable thought!†  (source)
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    Oh, he was detestable!†  (source)
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    They growled and barked like detestable dogs, mewed, and flapped their arms and crowed.†  (source)
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    From the bedroom beside the sleeping-porch, his wife's detestably cheerful "Time to get up, Georgie boy," and the itchy sound, the brisk and scratchy sound, of combing hairs out of a stiff brush.†  (source)
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    I an a friend of enemies, the enemy of friends; I an admired for my detestability.†  (source)
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    you left it open; and those — those DETESTABLE creatures won't bring coals to the fire.†  (source)
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    I spat out, and affirmed it tasted detestably — I would not take it on any account.†  (source)
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    As for Elizabeth herself, this invitation was so far from exciting in her the same feelings as in her mother and Lydia, that she considered it as the death warrant of all possibility of common sense for the latter; and detestable as such a step must make her were it known, she could not help secretly advising her father not to let her go.†  (source)
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    In a preposterous coat, like a beadle's, with cuffs and flaps exaggerated to an unspeakable extent; in an immense waistcoat, knee-breeches, buckled shoes, and a mad cocked hat; with nothing fitting him, and everything of coarse material, moth-eaten and full of holes; with seams in his black face, where fear and heat had started through the greasy composition daubed all over it; anything so grimly, detestably, ridiculously shameful as the whelp in his comic livery, Mr. Gradgrind never could by any other means have believed in, weighable and measurable fact though it was.†  (source)
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    You should hear mama on the chapter of governesses: Mary and I have had, I should think, a dozen at least in our day; half of them detestable and the rest ridiculous, and all incubi — were they not, mama?†  (source)
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    Responsible or not, he was equally an accomplice of his detestably mischievous daughter.†  (source)
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    Thus situated, employed in the most detestable occupation, immersed in a solitude where nothing could for an instant call my attention from the actual scene in which I was engaged, my spirits became unequal; I grew restless and nervous.†  (source)
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