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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.
- If it's not too late, I want to eliminate my more detestable vices before I get married.
- [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 - Most detestable death, by thee beguil'd,William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet
- 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
detestable = offensive (deserving intense dislike)
detestable = offensive (deserving intense dislike)
detestable = hated or horrible
detestable = hated