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  • s  offensive to the mind
  • s  unequivocally detestable
    detestable vices

  • Soon after, Wilson's motherwho gave him the detestable sobriquet "Bunny"went mysteriously deaf.
  • They meet up again with Cain (he's a running joke, but in Cross's cheerfully detestable hands, a bad one), who leads them on a tour of the city.
  • I was the provocation, beingin the eyes of the mobthe detestable spawn of her traitorous union with a Westerner.
Quotes

  • Barack Obama in New York Times
    This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who'sa professor of English in Chicago ...... somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago when I was 8 years old,Obama complained.
  • Nicolas Sarkozy in FOXNews
    We did not want to give the signal of a withdrawal, which would have been a detestable signal at a time when we see the ravages that terrorism can do to the world,Sarkozy said on France-Info radio.

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