detestable

How To Use detestable In A Sentence

• She stamped her foot for a final emphasis, but she was aware of her words all having fallen effectless, like blows dealt some detestable thing in a dream. The Coast of Bohemia
• I felt I was a detestable person and I hated myself and had all the feelings of failure.
• He would show, as Ibsen shows, and with an equal lack of malice prepense, various detestable features which the mask of good manners had concealed. Henrik Ibsen
• Jibbing, or "balking" as the Americans term it, is a detestable vice. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
• Hafner and Ardea have laid bare two detestable souls, the one of an infamous usurer, half German, half Dutch; the other of a degraded nobleman, in whom is revived some ancient 'condottiere'. The French Immortals Series — Complete
• It is not up to you, O non-scumbag Republican, to be responsible for their hate-mongering, lie-spreading, and all-around ultra-detestableness, which is a word my MS Word program seems to think actually exists. Ellis Weiner: An Open Letter to Republicans
• And about Godwin and Evans hovered an air of conspiracy they shared with the detestable Chambers. THE LAST RAVEN
• Her sister is the symbol of all that is detestable, damnable and loathsome.
• They're detestable creatures, certainly, but it's hard not to have a sneaking admiration for them.
• Nick Stahl does a good job portraying Bobby as a vicious, detestable bully (with perhaps just a hint of reptilian charisma).