Detestable
Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices.
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Detestable Quotations
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
Charles Bukowski
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.
Xun Zi
When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
Xun Zi
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
Karel Capek
If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
Curt Flood
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Richard Steele
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
Romain Rolland
Detestable Translations
detestable in German is verabscheuenswert, abscheulich
detestable in Italian is abominabile
detestable in Norwegian is avskyelig
detestable in Spanish is detestable, abominable
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