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detestable

Translation

adj.
detestable
hateful
un comportamiento detestable
a hateful behaviour
obnoxious
(Definition of detestable adj. from the Diccionario Cambridge Compact Español-Inglés © Cambridge University Press and Ediciones SM 2011)

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