Sample Sentences fordetestable (auto-selected)
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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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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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Detestable thought!† (source)
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Oh, he was detestable!† (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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They growled and barked like detestable dogs, mewed, and flapped their arms and crowed.† (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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you left it open; and those — those DETESTABLE creatures won't bring coals to the fire.† (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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There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable.† (source)
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No, as to that he's detestably sound.† (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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