They never let him speak, and they made him vote for things he thought perfectly detestable.

Now, when I was asking you if you were to be in London you were perfectly detestable.

She is perfectly detestable; she is driving me mad; and she is the pink of propriety all the time.

The contrary conduct is so perfectly detestable that I should suppose the scheme of Waterford ones can never succeed.

Of course, I know I have a perfectly detestable temper, but I hardly said a word to Miss Jenny Ann.

For at his first subdued rap, a dog with a penetratingly strident bark set up a perfectly detestable clamour within the house.

But the tea was detestable-perfectlydetestable!

"What a perfectly detestable little man!" Mrs. Hannay exclaimed, as the door closed over him.

"Laurie," she said, "I think it perfectly detestable.

"Mr. Carleton, you are perfectly detestable!"

"At breakfast this morning I was thinking how perfectly detestable it was of Brenda to do a thing like that."

"You are perfectly detestable and horrid," she told him when he had finished, "but I suppose there must be some good in you.