All 5 Uses

detestable
in
A Passage to India
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It was a detestable shanty near a low bazaar.†
Chpt 7 *
Here was Aziz all shoddy and odious, Mrs. Moore and Miss Quested both silly, and he himself and Heaslop both decorous on the surface, but detestable really, and detesting each other.†
Chpt 7
"I went into this detestable cave," she would say dryly, "and I remember scratching the wall with my finger-nail, to start the usual echo, and then as I was saying there was this shadow, or sort of shadow, down the entrance tunnel, bottling me up.†
Chpt 22
She spoke more calmly and resumed her cards, saying as she turned them up, "A bad old woman, bad, bad, detestable.†
Chpt 22
His hand was taken, and then he remembered how detestable he had been, and said gently, "Don't you think me unkind any more?†
Chpt 36

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