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I think Umbridge is the most detestable character in the Harry Potter books.detestable = deserving intense dislike
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Jefferson described the legislation as detestable.detestable = offensive (deserving intense dislike)
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J. is a detestable, sneaky, stuck-up, two-faced gossip who thinks she's so grown-up.† (source)
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Detestable man, how can you not understand what you did to me?† (source)
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Finalement, they leave that detestable apartment in Madrid!† (source)
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Further, the culinary wizard of such a place as the Overlook, which advertised in the resort section of the New York Sunday Times, should be small, rotund, and pasty-faced (rather like the Pillsbury Dough-Boy); he should have a thin pencilline mustache like a forties musical comedy star, dark eyes, a French accent, and a detestable personality.† (source)
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Even the detestable Mao Zedong gave permission for our police to purge it.† (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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After the meet was over we all piled our wet and smelly bodies into the detestable bus.† (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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Thomas Hickey, you have been court-martialed and found guilty of the capital crimes of mutiny and sedition, of holding a treacherous correspondence with, and receiving pay from, the enemy for the most horrid and detestable purposes, and you have been sentenced to hang from the neck until dead.† (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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"To attempt to introduce discipline and subordination into a new army must always be a work of much difficulty," Reed wrote to his wife, "but where the principles of democracy so universally prevail, where so great an equality and so thorough a leveling spirit predominates, either no discipline can be established, or he who attempts it must become odious and detestable, a position which no one will choose."† (source)
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Elinor would not contend, and only replied, "Whoever may have been so detestably your enemy, let them be cheated of their malignant triumph, my dear sister, by seeing how nobly the consciousness of your own innocence and good intentions supports your spirits.† (source)
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I find him detestable, and I would have rather he'd stayed in Uppsala, but he owns this house.† (source)
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