Both Uses of
detestable
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
- She spent half her time in thinking of beauty and bravery and magnanimity; she had a fixed determination to regard the world as a place of brightness, of free expansion, of irresistible action: she held it must be detestable to be afraid or ashamed.†
Chpt 6 *
- No, as to that he's detestably sound.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
deserving intense dislike