Definition of "detestability" [de•test•a•bil•i•ty]

• The state or quality of being detestable. (noun)

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• "Benjamin Latrobe, the “Father of American Architecture” who designed the U.S. Capitol, saw whites performing the Virginia Jig and called it “the excess of detestability.”"
• "Oh, well I'm certainly not suggesting an objective standard of detestability."
• "Welsh Wales to English London, and gives us in _My Neighbours_ (MELROSE) a further collection of sketches pleasantly calculated to prove that the general detestability of his compatriots remains unchanged by their migration from a whitewashed cottage to a villa in Suburbia."