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Meanings of detestably in English
Portuguese
de forma detestável Synonyms
Examples for "abominably"
Examples for "abominably"
1
The rocks at the north end of the beach are abominably slippery.
2
The iron was deeply rusted and the place itself smelled abominably stale.
3
I ought never to have given way; we were both abominably selfish.
4
In a great deal of my talk with D. I posed abominably.
5
It was the right thing to do, and it was done abominably.
1
He shocked the family to its odiously complacent core by growing Tranquillity.
2
He had odiously watchful eyes-eyes that looked skilled in peeping through key-holes.
3
They adopted an odiously patronising attitude towards the once popular game of backgammon.
4
His looks, manner, intonation, the phrases he employed were odiously familiar to her.
5
Your glee this evening has been really too barefaced; you have paraded me odiously.
1
Anne could command herself enough to receive that look, and not repulsively.
2
Lady Fides had sent him away as he had-turned repulsively old.
3
He was young and well-made, but thin and repulsively ugly.
4
All he had just said seemed to him repulsively stupid.
5
No treason was ever so repulsively foul, so reekingly corrupt.
Usage of detestably in English
1
What the thing is, is not cowardly, but profoundly and detestably wicked.
2
She was detestably vain, common and selfish; he would be on his guard.
3
Near them was the detestably picturesque castle perched upon a bracket.
4
And still the pale phosphorescence glowed in that detestably ancient woodwork.
5
Responsible or not, he was equally an accomplice of his detestably mischievous daughter.
6
Yes, there was no doubt she was a clever woman-unpardonablyand detestably clever.
7
Courtesy forbids my refusal; but I find it detestably bitter.
8
They were frightfully cold and damp and slippery, and their paws kneaded one detestably.
9
I think he is probably very wicked, but detestably-oh ,damnably-clever
10
But when he looked at the instructresses the Commissary smiled as detestably as the sergeant.
11
These imps are said to be kept in pots or other vessels that stink detestably.
12
The roads were in many places detestably bad.
13
As a matter of fact he acted detestably.
14
And I have been worried to-day, detestably worried.
15
His highly-polished boots creaked detestably whenever he moved.
16
You 're a detestably lucky fellow, my boy!
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