Sentence examples for detestable of from inspiring English sources
It is not grammatically correct to use "detestable of" in a sentence
A more correct phrase would be "detestable to" or "detestable for." Example: "His behavior was detestable to me"
In 1800 our first, First Lady Martha Washington said of Thomas Jefferson that he was "one of the most detestable of mankind".
The latter runs from New Orleans to Los Angeles, which veritably guarantees that only the basest and most detestable of North America's traveling community will ever find cause to ride its dry and barren rails.
If the government won't protect us from rape, one of the most detestable crimes of violence, what will they protect us from?
General Brooks said, "The regime's use of the Ali Mosque for military purposes to trigger a coalition response is just the latest detestable example of the regime's strategy of deliberately putting sacred sites in danger".
It is rather that there is a tendency to relapse into that class of ideas, expressions, and circumstances, which is most connected with the grosser and more animal portion of our nature; and that the detestable morality of the most prominent character in the story is accompanied with every sort of palliation short of unblushing justification".
(Cue the twin detestable options of blagging or a shamefaced, wrongfooting confession of ignorance).
Filmed on a bare-bones budget, the film depicts a party of ghouls laying siege to a generally detestable group of human beings trapped in the now famous Pennsylvania farmhouse.
The petition she signed claims: "The name of Bigeard is synonymous with the most detestable practices of the French Army".
But a keen-eyed viewer may have noticed that no target bore more of Oliver's fury than the most detestable collection of people that ever lived: the people from stock photography.
As outlined in the indictment and lawsuits, Shkreli's career as a hedge fund manager displayed the same qualities that have made him such a detestable symbol of industry greed: brashness, an almost pathological self-confidence, and a buzz of business acumen that is deeply misleading.
It will pave the way for the detestable injustices of the American two-tier system.
