How to Use detestable in a Sentence

detestable

adjective

• He is a detestable villain.
• And how a beloved author could have been a detestable human.
  — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• While a free trip to Hawaii sounds great, there's just one problem: her plus one is her detestable new brother-in-law, Ethan.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 9 May 2022
• Go through the city, through Jerusalem, and mark the foreheads of those who sigh and groan because of all the detestable practices that have been conducted in it.
  — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 25 Jan. 2023
• And fans in other markets don’t see him as detestable or anything like that.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• But here in the U.S., chili is considered delicious and far from detestable.
  — Eric Velasco, AL.com, 5 Jan. 2018
• Played by anyone else, Felix would be a detestable, sexist cad.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2020
• The reality has been tested by many millions, and found to be detestable.
  — George Melloan, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2020
• Those who find the presence of Fox News on their cable menus detestable should let their cable operators know it.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• That partially explains the expansion of the detestable chorus from the school itself to its sponsor.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Sep. 2022
• Even the wave, seen recently at both Oracle Park and the Coliseum, isn’t as detestable as usual.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 July 2021
• Ferguson’s Rose the Hat is one of the best movie villains in recent memory, by turns arousing and detestable, but always riveting.
  — John Wenzel, The Know, 8 Nov. 2019
• Some of it has been riddled with detestable ideology -- some arguable, some blatant -- and others have been praise-worthy pieces of progress embedded in song.
  — Trish Bendix, Billboard, 20 Sep. 2017
• Keely Vasquez, who plays the thanklessly detestable Gussie Carnegie (the name says it all), delivers far more than this object of Sondheim hatred usually delivers.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• There is a captivating oddity to how this tastily detestable character speaks, as if her frontal lobe were programmed with grammar and usage flash cards.
  — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2019
• The openness that allows art to be remixed toward detestable political ends is also what allows something hateful to be redeemed.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2020
• But Feito, an obviously talented writer, gives us a Mrs. March who is detestable, a person who revels in other people’s failures.
  — Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2021
• What is detestable, though, is McAuliffe’s disdain for lower-income families who want that same level of accountability from their children’s public schools.
  — Rory Cooper, National Review, 1 Oct. 2021
• Campy embraces the detestable with affection, as an actual aesthetic.
  — Marie Southard Ospina, refinery29.com, 26 Jan. 2021
• Smith said because child abuse crimes are so detestable, some defendants will never take responsibility.
  — Deanna Boyd, star-telegram.com, 31 May 2017
• First, Pacific Gas & Electric, which may be the most detested, and detestable, corporation in California, if not in the observable solar system.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
• An unequivocal rejection of this detestable president will send him packing.
  — John R. MacArthur, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
• West’s sole attribution to the Jewish people of a widespread conspiracy to control society is a detestable lie offensive not only to those of the Jewish faith but also to this diverse, power-hungry cabal.
  — Skyler Higley, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2022
• When the debaters attempted to move to a private broadcasting location, the protestors—many in masks, a common tactic also used by the detestable Ku Klux Klan—pulled fire alarms, surrounded the speakers, and began physically assaulting them.
  — Time, 11 Sep. 2017
• Some of Reed’s characters are detestable, their behavior inexcusable.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 1 Oct. 2019

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