About The Word Detestable
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Detestable
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What's The Definition Of Detestable?
[adj] unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
[adj] offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels" Synonyms | Synonyms for Detestable: abhorrent | abominable | execrable | hateful | obscene | odious | offensive | repugnant | repulsive Related Terms | Find terms related to Detestable: abhorrent | abominable | arrant | atrocious | awful | base | beastly | below contempt | beneath contempt | blameworthy | brutal | contemptible | crude | deplorable | despicable | despiteful | dire | disgusting | dreadful | egregious | enormous | execrable | fetid | filthy | flagrant | forbidding | foul | fulsome | grievous | gross | hateful | heinous | horrible | horrid | ignoble | infamous | lamentable | loathsome | lousy | malodorous | mephitic | miasmal | miasmic | monstrous | nasty | nauseating | nefarious | noisome | notorious | noxious | objectionable | obnoxious | obscene | odious | offensive | outrageous | pitiable | pitiful | rank | rebarbative | regrettable | repellent | reprehensible | repugnant | repulsive | revolting | rotten | sad | scandalous | schlock | scurvy | shabby | shameful | shocking | shoddy | sickening | sordid | sorry | squalid | stinking | terrible | too bad | unclean | unlikable | vile | villainous | woeful | worst | worthless | wretched See Also | Detestable In Webster's Dictionary \De*test"a*ble\, a. [L. detestabilis: cf. F.
d['e]testable.]
Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very
odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices.
Thou hast defiled my sanctuary will all thy detestable
things, and with all thine abominations. --Ezek. v. 11.
Syn: Abominable; odious; execrable; abhorred.
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