Detestable has 4 syllables.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and eight times out of nine I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. | |
| 2. | The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. | |
| 3. | The smell was detestable. | |
| 4. | And therefore the Lord slew him, because he did a detestable thing. | |
| 5. | What a detestable woman! | |
| 6. | He had no illusions about the London police. Indeed, he was collecting evidence of their malpractices; and those costermongers, not allowed to stand their barrows in the streets; and prostitutes, good Lord, the fault wasn't in them, nor in young men either, but in our detestable social system and so forth; all of which he considered, could be seen considering, grey, dogged, dapper, clean, as he walked across the Park to tell his wife that he loved her. |