detestable

• “Her engagement at the luncheon-bar he spoke of as a detestable slavery, which had wasted her health and driven her in the end to an act of desperation.”

  The Nether World

• “That's odd, because I think the word detestable in that verse is the same as the one in Leviticus 18: 22”

  4Simpsons Blog - Eternity Matters

• “But the ad misleadingly omits Mr. Obama's having called Mr. Ayers 'conduct back then "detestable" -- and I agree with that.”

  Lanny Davis: Best of Times, Worst of Times

• “But the ad misleadingly omits Mr. Obama's having called Mr. Ayers 'conduct back then "detestable" - and I agree with that.”

  The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines

• “And of course, the preferred alternative spelling for Moloch was Molek, known as the detestable god of the Ammonites.”

  Dexter in the Dark

• “I say, what name detestable enough could we find for such a being? yet, if we impartially consider the case, and our intermediate situation, we must acknowledge that, with regard to inferior animals, just such a being is a sportsman.”

  The Illustrated London Reading Book

• “PRIME MINISTER described as a detestable campaign and bury the hatchet and all the other weapons employed in it.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917

• “The Egyptians had always been described as detestable enemies and oppressors, yet how enchanting everything seemed in the house of the first Egyptian warrior he had entered.”

  Joshua — Volume 1

• “But why were this great king's good deeds towards the Pope and the Catholic faith rewarded, by what we can only call detestable intrigue and treachery?”

  Roman and the Teuton

• “Oh! unhappy Florence, when wilt thou say farewell to crimes which render thy name detestable among Italian states?”

  Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf

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