Detestable

(a.) Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices.

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• I assure you he is very detestable; the Admiral's lessons have quite spoiled him. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Not at present, he answered, with detestable composure. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Did not an immortal physicist and interpreter of hieroglyphs write detestable verses? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I had much ado to defend myself against these detestable animals, and could not forbear starting when they came on my face. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• I thought it a detestable custom; but it was necessary, he supposed, to drink _strong_ beer, that he might be _strong_ to labour. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• It was peace at laSt. The old, detestable world of tension had passed away at last, his soul was strong and at ease. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I wish I could say the same of the gentry--detestable word, but I suppose I must use it--of the gentry in the neighbourhood. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Anything to vary this detestable monotony. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• In the detestable slang of the day, we were now both at a deadlock, and nothing was left for it but to refer to our clients on either side. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It would be easy to lie to you; but the truth is I think it detestable. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Mr Boffin's speeches were detestable to me, shocking to me,' said Bella, startling that gentleman with another stamp of her little foot. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I come from arriving at this so detestable house with your wife. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• And the more detestable his actions are to the citizens the more satellites and the greater devotion in them will he require? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• But for your detestable yellow hair and your white skin you would be an honour to the First Born of Barsoom. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• What is passable in youth is detestable in later age. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• There is nothing more detestable than that society horror, a beauty man, who resembles a wax figure in his unnatural perfectibility of face and form. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• It sets aside, without discussion, the detestable idea of subject peoples. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There was a certain priggish Sunday-school stiffness over him, priggish and detestable. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• And indeed to avoid so monstrous and detestable a sight was one principal motive of my retirement hither. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• The funeral was detestable. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• He had a horror of the Magna Mater, she was detestable. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• It was not referred away to some detestable social principle. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Houses and furniture and clothes, they are all terms of an old base world, a detestable society of man. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• And will any one say that he is not a miserable caitiff who remorselessly sells his own divine being to that which is most godless and detestable? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• As it was, he took her words for a covert judgment, and was certain that she thought his sketch detestable. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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