Meaning & use
Detestable
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deserving intense dislike or hatred.
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The dictator's detestable policies caused widespread suffering.
She found his detestable habit of interrupting others infuriating.
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From "detest," meaning to feel intense dislike, ultimately from Latin "detestari," to denounce.
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