Crossword-Solution: DETESTABLY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Detestably | adv. | In a detestable manner. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “DETESTABLY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Abhorrently. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
INEDVI
Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with DETESTABLY (5)
Beyond you three, is there a creature in the world whom I would not rather suspect of evil than Willoughby, whose heart I know so well?” Elinor would not contend, and only replied, “Whoever may have been so detestably your enemy, let them be cheated of their malignant triumph, my dear sister, by seeing how nobly the consciousness of your own innocence and good intentions supports your spirits.
You ‘re a detestably lucky fellow, my boy! But you ought not to have squandered such material on a simple bust; you should have made a great imaginative figure.
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.” “Delectably!” observed Catherine.
Idle’s horror and amazement, when he saw this young man—on ordinary occasions, the meekest and mildest of human beings—suddenly contract his eye-brows, compress his lips, assume the aspect of an infuriated savage, run back a few steps, then run forward, and, without the slightest previous provocation, hurl a detestably hard ball with all his might straight at Thomas’s legs.
And yet The Machine works so detestably at present that we have people who advocate Anarchy and call themselves Anarchists.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1967).