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detestable

de·test·able

Today it means: Stimulating disgust or detestation; offensive; shocking. Full definition →

Middle French détestable

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Middle French · borrowed fromdétestable
English todaydetestable

From Middle French détestable. By surface analysis, detest + -able.

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