detestable

• 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
• But, after Mr. ASQUITH'S handsome admission that, by their splendid services in the War, women had worked out their own electoral salvation, even that topic seemed to have lost most of its provocative quality; and there is a general desire to forget what the late PRIME MINISTER described as a detestable campaign and bury the hatchet and all the other weapons employed in it Illustration: "CO-ORDINATION Foreign Office. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917
• Perhaps some one who has tried will reply they are all alike detestable, and, if he be Irish, will add that the only decent watch on deck is the watch below--an "all night in." —  From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life
• 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
• Because he's detestable -- perfectly ignoble. " —  April Hopes

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