Sentence examples for be detestable from inspiring English sources
adjective
Stimulating disgust or detestation; offensive; shocking.
Meanwhile, DedSec itself is made up of characters so whacky that they would be detestable if the script didn't hold it together so well.
Goethe considered Beethoven to be "an utterly untamed personality, who is not altogether in the wrong in holding the world to be detestable, but surely does not make it any the more enjoyable either for himself or for others by his attitude".
"Homosexual conduct is declared to be detestable because it is out of harmony with the purpose for which God created human beings".
This is what's supposed to be detestable about selling sex: It objectifies and sexualizes, it flattens the self into an image, consumable in a single sitting.
But the World Series version is detestable.
It's merely that the French are detestable".
However, unlike in Transparent, none of these people are detestable.
And as a code word for racial and ethnic hatred, it is detestable.
"We had nothing to do with that and we think it's detestable," said JAY HORWITZ, the Mets' public relations director.
