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Detestable

adjective

Stimulating disgust or detestation; offensive; shocking.

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Club members were reading from the Book of Leviticus and discussing the morality of homosexuality: If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable.

The article included a biblical verse from Leviticus: "If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable.

It will pave the way for the detestable injustices of the American two-tier system.

Stew, could you divulge something detestable about yourself to help quell my longstanding crush on you?

The Taliban and Osama bin Laden were, he explained, "detestable murderers and scumbags" who should be hunted down.In this section Et tu, Julio?

THIS Monday's New York Daily News printed a delicious bit of character assassination: "He's a vile, detestable, moralistic person with no heart and no conscience who believes he's been tapped by God to do very important things".

Another, covering some of the same ground, recalls for example that perjury, according to a celebrated English jurist writing in 1717, "is of all the crimes whatsoever the most infamous and detestable".

Mr Gilder argues: "The mind-boggling amount of data and the speed at which it will travel via bandwidth technology will render today's time-wasting practices both obsolete and detestable".Sceptics may well ask themselves if the exciting new age has not produced its own version of C. Northcote Parkinson's famous law about work and time: junk communication expands to fill the bandwidth available.

There was at any rate no mention of the "detestable murderers and scumbags" whom the bellicose chief of defence staff, General Rick Hillier, once said were Canada's target in Afghanistan.

Mr Kershaw admits here that he finds Hitler "detestable".

It resembles the Yankee flag and that is enough to make it unutterably detestable".

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