Sentence examples for most detestable from inspiring English sources

Iago, the culprit and one of Shakespeare's most detestable villains, is played by Micheal MacLiammoir.

"You will be investigating the most detestable people you are ever likely to meet," Vanger announces with relish.

In a 1968 study of 555 personal traits, people ranked liars and phonies as the most detestable individuals, even lower than those who are murderous, malicious, and cruel.

The free expression of even the most detestable views should only be curbed by the most precise necessity – back to Grey's Whiggish formula.

No surprise there; the most detestable racists are often so steeped in their own bigotry, and the affirmation of like-minded bigots, that they can scarcely recognize their own hatred, or give it a name.

The character is one of the most detestable in drama; yet McCabe, playing him as a monstrous egotist who cuts off the heads of drawing-room roses before graciously presenting them to his hostess, makes him irresistible company.

A facile reading of the current production of "Three Tall Women" would be that Albee was a misogynist, but that would be reductive: what if the person you were supposed to love the most was detestable, and happened to be a woman?

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".

He summarised the prosecution's case by telling the jury that Canning was guilty of "the most impious and detestable [crime] the human heart can conceive".

Homosexuality is regarded as detestable by most people in Malawi, an impoverished nation of 15 million in southern Africa.

Geneva Carr makes this ambitious, morally posturing, didactic climber really detestable; laughing at her is most satisfying.