detestable

How To Use detestable In A Sentence

• detestable vices
• [130] 'Sigismunda;' a detestable miscreation of Hogarth's pencil, admired by none but himself. Poetical Works
• Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. Henry Ward Beecher 
• HIGGINS explosively : Woman: cease this detestable boohooing instantly.
• We find Giacomo Trotti, the French ambassador in Milan, writing to the Duke of Ferrara a fortnight after Roderigo's election that "the Papacy has been sold by simony and a thousand rascalities, which is a thing ignominious and detestable. The Life of Cesare Borgia
• To lose my temper with Charley, particularly when he was trying so hard to be kind to me, was detestable behaviour. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
• One other thing, the poor person must be utterly detestable, and may God bless their lives. The path winds along mountain ridges.
• Serko will employ every means in his power to obtain the composition of the explosive and deflagrator, of which he will make such detestable use during future piratical exploits. Facing the Flag
• stinkhorn," extremely common in some districts of England, and obtruding on the notice of every one from its detestable odour. The Land of Midian — Volume 2
• And had it not been that they had very well antidoted their stomach, heart, and wine-pot, which is called the noddle, they had been altogether suffocated and choked with these detestable vapours. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel