Detestable: alternatives and connections

Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent.

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Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent.

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Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words.

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Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words.

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Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts.

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Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.

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Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch.

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Offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing of presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and decency forbid to be exposed; im…

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Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious name, system, vice.

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Disposed to fight against; hostile; at war with; being at variance; contrary; inconsistent; refractory; disobedient; also, distasteful in a high degr…

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Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive force.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.