But the most detestable thing about them is that they always have loads of time, and they kill this time.

Nearly as bad, it seems, was the buffalo gnat, which one traveler called "the most detestable thing in creation."

I felt he carried off the "detestable yet strangely sympathetic and seductive" thing better than Mitchell, even in the when-Mitchell-was-evil flashbacks.

As for music, it was the most detestable thing in the world -she wondered that she had never realized it before.

They were haughty and did detestable things before me.

I am robb'd, sir, and beaten; my money and apparel ta'en from me, and these detestable things put upon me.

Peredur had done a detestable thing, but remained a very likeable young man.

What a detestable thing that was, he thought while he watched Adam's hand.

His advices had included comments like "others will respect you for detesting people who have done detestable things," but nothing about generosity or benevolence.

The story is set up as the narrator's explanation for why a "draught of cool air" is the most detestable thing to them.