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Definition
deserving intense dislike
- As it was, he took her words for a covert judgment, and was certain that she thought his sketch detestable.Book 1 — Miss Brooke (64% in)
- Did not an immortal physicist and interpreter of hieroglyphs write detestable verses?Book 1 — Miss Brooke (68% in)
There are no more uses of "detestable" in Middlemarch.
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