detestable

Speech parts

1. detestable - Adjective

2. detestable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

abominable odious execrable obscene repulsive abhorrent repugnant carrion infernal low base rotten accursed mean bad

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Antonyms

good great noble ambrosian namer famous

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Related terms

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Phrases with the word

more detestable quality of being detestable state of being detestable be detestable less detestable detestable twain

Anagrams

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Examples

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. Henry Ward Beecher

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so. Romain Rolland

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable. Oscar Wilde

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and eight times out of nine I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. Charles Bukowski

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end. Karel Čapek

Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude. George Washington

Close letter words and terms

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