All 4 Uses of
detestable
in
The Portrait of a Lady
- 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
- 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