Detestable is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DETESTABLE in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• hateful
• deserving intense dislike
• Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices.
• offensive to the mind
• unequivocally detestable
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• arousing or meriting intense dislik; abominable

Words related to DETESTABLE

detestably16 hateful13

Words that contain DETESTABLE

detestableness17 detestablenesse18 detestablenesses19

How to use DETESTABLE in a sentence

• It seemed to his morbid fancy that whatever path he might take, he was sure of running upon one or more of those detestable girls who were visiting at Elmhurst.
• I could have smiled at this further lapse had not the owner, a detestable club acquaintance whom I had been trying to keep at a distance for years, been the driver.
• It was a detestable and vulgar suggestion which connected Mrs.
• Sometimes it makes them attractive and sometimes it makes them detestable.
• The character of the Hollanders is too grossly vicious and detestable to give the least pleasure.
• No sooner was the expense thus reduced than I was subjected to a detestable form of restraint which amounted to torture.
• And should the government be amended, still this detestable kind of commerce cannot be discontinued till after the expiration of twenty years.
• The contempt of his detestable indifference sank deeper and deeper into my soul.
• The condition of all secret and illegal societies in Ireland is, indeed, shocking and most detestable, when contemplated from any point of view whatsoever.
• On the other hand, the text-books in common use have been positively detestable.
• The people there, breathing the spirit of French liberty, had, by a simultaneous rising, thrown off the detestable Austrian yoke.
• And sham seemed to me the most detestable thing on earth.
• Detestable wretch! This accounts for the inconsistency of his well-to-do looks and his pitiable groans.
• Sauvresy did a detestable thing when he thought of making this poor girl the accomplice, or I should say, the instrument of his wrath.
• A bad breath is such a detestable thing, that it might be a sufficient reason for not marrying a person of otherwise agreeable qualities.
• Yet the thought of remaining in close proximity to a party of tourists was detestable to him.
• Of course he had the greatest possible horror of medicine, and his busy thoughts began to run upon how he might avoid that detestable powder.
• Yet, notwithstanding all this, I should find the cynical note on which Andre-Louis announced the issue to the Assembly utterly detestable did I believe it sincere.
• It were a most enormous and horrid offence, detestable before God and the angels, to reveal a confession.
• Since he had fallen into business relations with his younger son he had become convinced that a more detestable young man did not exist.
• But it seemed that this detestable Englishman had schemes in his head by which their lives might yet be saved.
• There is current a detestable phrase or definition, which even Coleridge allows himself to countenance, namely, that poetry is something which gives pleasure.
• But I blame myself, now, for a quite detestable lack of sincerity in pushing him on.
• Her greatly elevated nose brings her whole being into an altitude seemingly far above the detestable situation she finds herself in.
• You can go to that horrible, detestable girl when it is necessary, and have your odious coach to post you up.

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