Detestable
[dɪ'testəb(ə)l] or [dɪ'tɛstəbl]
Definition
(a.) Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Execrable, abominable, odious, hateful, cursed, accursed, abhorred, damnable, shocking.[2]. Loathsome, disgusting, sickening, repulsive, offensive, nauseating.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See DETEST_and_ABOMINABLE]
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Examples
- I assure you he is very detestable; the Admiral's lessons have quite spoiled him. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Not at present, he answered, with detestable composure. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Did not an immortal physicist and interpreter of hieroglyphs write detestable verses? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I had much ado to defend myself against these detestable animals, and could not forbear starting when they came on my face. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I thought it a detestable custom; but it was necessary, he supposed, to drink _strong_ beer, that he might be _strong_ to labour. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It was peace at laSt. The old, detestable world of tension had passed away at last, his soul was strong and at ease. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I wish I could say the same of the gentry--detestable word, but I suppose I must use it--of the gentry in the neighbourhood. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Anything to vary this detestable monotony. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In the detestable slang of the day, we were now both at a deadlock, and nothing was left for it but to refer to our clients on either side. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It would be easy to lie to you; but the truth is I think it detestable. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Mr Boffin's speeches were detestable to me, shocking to me,' said Bella, startling that gentleman with another stamp of her little foot. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I come from arriving at this so detestable house with your wife. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And the more detestable his actions are to the citizens the more satellites and the greater devotion in them will he require? Plato. The Republic.
- But for your detestable yellow hair and your white skin you would be an honour to the First Born of Barsoom. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- What is passable in youth is detestable in later age. Jane Austen. Emma.
- There is nothing more detestable than that society horror, a beauty man, who resembles a wax figure in his unnatural perfectibility of face and form. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It sets aside, without discussion, the detestable idea of subject peoples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There was a certain priggish Sunday-school stiffness over him, priggish and detestable. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And indeed to avoid so monstrous and detestable a sight was one principal motive of my retirement hither. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The funeral was detestable. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He had a horror of the Magna Mater, she was detestable. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was not referred away to some detestable social principle. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Houses and furniture and clothes, they are all terms of an old base world, a detestable society of man. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And will any one say that he is not a miserable caitiff who remorselessly sells his own divine being to that which is most godless and detestable? Plato. The Republic.
- As it was, he took her words for a covert judgment, and was certain that she thought his sketch detestable. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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