Sentence examples for was detestable from inspiring English sources
adjective
Stimulating disgust or detestation; offensive; shocking.
"Some of the police behavior at that time was detestable, which is why steps have been put into place to ensure that the kinds of acts associated with Jon Burge never happen again".
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?
If you think the vote suppressing madness we saw in 2016 was detestable, wait until you see 2018 if this is allowed to stand.
However, the Byzantine commander, Niketas, surrendered the fortress to Duke Géza instead of the king; he knew that Solomon "was a hard man and that in all things he listened to the vile counsels of Count Vid, who was detestable in the eyes both of God and men", according to the Illuminated Chronicle.
Many described their sex lives to have been negatively impacted because of the excess fluid, which was detestable to both the women and their partners.
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.
