Both Uses of
detestable
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- How detestably fortunate!†
Chpt 28 *
- The desire to have something or other to show for his "parts"—to show somehow or other—had been the dream of his youth; but as the years went on the conditions attached to any marked proof of rarity had affected him more and more as gross and detestable; like the swallowing of mugs of beer to advertise what one could "stand."†
Chpt 29
Definition:
deserving intense dislike