English example sentences with "detestable"

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and eight times out of nine I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
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The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.
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The smell was detestable.
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And therefore the Lord slew him, because he did a detestable thing.
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What a detestable woman!
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He had no illusions about the London police. Indeed, he was collecting evidence of their malpractices; and those costermongers, not allowed to stand their barrows in the streets; and prostitutes, good Lord, the fault wasn't in them, nor in young men either, but in our detestable social system and so forth; all of which he considered, could be seen considering, grey, dogged, dapper, clean, as he walked across the Park to tell his wife that he loved her.
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That man is a detestable person!
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In my opinion, smoking is a ridiculous and detestable act, in addition to being very harmful to health.
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What a detestable girl!
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