Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a detestable manner; very hatefully; abominably; execrably.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a detestable manner.
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- adverb In a
detestable manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an offensive and hateful manner
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Examples
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During a discussion in Queens, a working-class neighborhood if ever there was one, rightfully pissed-off average people pelted Dudley with questions about the ways in which the detestably prevalent practice of commodities speculation had driven up the prices of all sorts of things that actually have a real-world impact on people: food, gas, electricity, etc.
Chez Pazienza: Kudlow & Dudley: Speaking Their Minds? Chez Pazienza 2011
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During a discussion in Queens, a working-class neighborhood if ever there was one, rightfully pissed-off average people pelted Dudley with questions about the ways in which the detestably prevalent practice of commodities speculation had driven up the prices of all sorts of things that actually have a real-world impact on people: food, gas, electricity, etc.
Chez Pazienza: Kudlow & Dudley: Speaking Their Minds? Chez Pazienza 2011
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Laughably inept; detestably despicable: ladies and gentlemen … the President of the United States!
Remember Honduras? Obama does, and he hasn’t given up trying to destabilize the country 2010
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To suggest that critical gender studies is correcting an imbalance in favour of women is either shockingly ignorant or detestably insulting.
women’s studies vs critical gender studies « Love | Peace | Ohana 2007
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You cannot attack someone with so much obvious detestably for them then absolve yourself by saying “Oh, yeah, but I forgive them.”
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And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestably acts 40 years ago when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and m y values, doesn't make much sense, George ...
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I have been giving her a few hints, from the stores of my worldly knowledge, and they appear to her so detestably mean and vulgar, that they have almost broken her heart.
Camilla 2008
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Hey, Nancy & Harry, why are you detestably betraying America?
Where have Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi spent their 30 pieces of silver? 2007
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All of you that take the time to be so pompous and detestably smug about this and the like are inept .
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Oh! he was spiteful, acrid, savage; and, as a natural consequence, detestably ugly.
Villette 2003
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