detestable
/dɪˈtɛstəb(ə)l
/adjective
Deserving intense dislike: I found the film’s violence detestable...
- I felt I was a detestable person and I hated myself and had all the feelings of failure.
- Allen's characters, both the admirable ones and the detestable ones, are intensely alive, and we know this by their distinctive voices.
- The most vulnerable members of our society fall victim to the repulsive and detestable warlords and gang masters who conceal their depraved activity behind closed doors.
Synonyms
abhorrent, detested, hateful, hated, loathsome, loathed, despicable, despised, abominable, abominated, execrable, execrated, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, disgusting, distasteful, horrible, horrid, horrifying, awful, heinous, reprehensible, obnoxious, odious, nauseating, offensive, contemptible
Derivatives
detestably
/ adverb ...- ‘We shouldn't have come this far,’ he said quietly, some irrepressible and detestably responsible instinct rising up and taking him by surprise.
- The woman was detestably sensible, opinionated, and outspoken and her son trusted her reasoning above all things, except, perhaps his own.
- The thing is, is not cowardly, but profoundly and detestably wicked.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin detestabilis, from the verb detestari (see detest).
- stop-off
- stop off (or over)
- stop one's ears
- stop out
- stopover
- stoppable
- stoppage
- stoppage time
- Stoppard, Sir Tom
- stop payment
- stopped diapason
- stopper
- stopping
- stopping point
- stopping train
- stopple
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- stop short
- stop short of
- stop someone dead
- stop someone short
- stop someone's mouth
- stop something down
- stop something out
- stop-start