Both Uses
detestable
in
Howards End
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- In the first place, the Grange is on clay, and built where the castle moat must have been; then there's that detestable little river, steaming all night like a kettle.†
Part 31
- What a detestable boy Tibby was!†
Part 37 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(detestable) deserving intense dislike
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)