What is "detestably"

Usage examples of "detestably".

So detestably top-lofty that you apparently think I must obey your wishes, as though I had no mind or will of my own!

He doesn't flirt with her, and he seems to say detestably uncivil things to her, but if he isn't trying to fix his interests with her, I cannot help wondering why he has remained in Bath for so long.

I spat out, and affirmed it tasted detestably - I would not take it on any account.

You'd hear of odd things if I lived alone with that mawkish, waxen face: the most ordinary would be painting on its white the colours of the rainbow, and turning the blue eyes black, every day or two: they detestably resemble Linton's.

I know I seem to you to be heartless, and detestably tyrannical, but, believe me, you'll thank me for it one day.

She thought it the most elegant bedchamber imaginable, and would have been amazed had she known that Lady Silverdale was most dissatisfied with the hangings, which she said had faded so much that they now looked detestably shabby.

She embarked on the task of peace-making, soothing her ruffled parent by agreeing that Cardle was detestably uppish, but saying that she was so devoted to her mistress that she resented it if even Mama’s own daughter dared to perform any service for her which she regarded as her sole prerogative.

Indubitably there was a sort of heavy dragging, and a most detestably sticky noise as of some fiendish and unclean species of suction.

And still the pale phosphorescence glowed in that detestably ancient woodwork.

The woman was detestably self-righteous and self-important, but a perfect treasure trove.

I adjusted the belt of my detestably dowdy coat and fingered a strand of loose hair.