Sentence examples for it's detestable from inspiring English sources
"We had nothing to do with that and we think it's detestable," said JAY HORWITZ, the Mets' public relations director.
It's detestable and whimsical at once.
And as a code word for racial and ethnic hatred, it is detestable.
"EVEN if it did not sow the decay of the whole civilized life of Europe," an ominously prescient John Maynard Keynes wrote in 1919, it was "abhorrent and detestable" to impose financial reparations on Germany after World War I.
To the large majority of French people who could not stand their President, he said, "Everything about him is detestable, even his physique, his smallness".
Hence, James, who commented on Palladino's behaviour in America to Flournoy that 'Eusapia's type of performance is detestable – if it be not fraud simulating reality, it is reality simulating fraud!' (9 April 1910, Skrupskelis and Berkeley, 1992 2004: XII, 466) was not the only psychical researcher who had doubts regarding the value of Carrington's project.
(They weathered the McCarthy era with a sign that defended them as art while conceding that the artist's politics were "detestable").
Any anti-Muslim discrimination is detestable, but it is especially pernicious when it targets students in our public schools, which should be safe havens for students of all faiths, and those of none.
He said: "Because of my beliefs, because of the Bible that I read, in the Bible it does state that homosexuality is detestable unto the Lord".
"Homosexual conduct is declared to be detestable because it is out of harmony with the purpose for which God created human beings".
