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abominate

[ UK /ɐbˈɒmɪnˌe‍ɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. find repugnant
    She abhors cats
    I loathe that man

How To Use abominate In A Sentence

  • Again and again he declared that he would vigorously enforce laws which he abominates, on civil rights, abortion rights, gay rights, etc.
  • Cohen pointed out, quite rightly, that ‘there were 20 million reasons’ (the number of people killed by Stalin) to abominate the name of Stalin beyond all others.
  • It is always difficult for passionate moral minorities to operate in plural cultures because they have to learn to live alongside practices which they abominate.
  • Although the Romans abominated the memory of the later Etruscan kings of Rome, a long tradition approved of both Romulus, who was renowned for the arts of war, and Numa, renowned for the arts of peace.
  • I refer to slavery, Mistuh Comber, which they affect to abominate, but which we of the South hold to be a nat'ral condition which, for better or worse, is inevitable A strangled oath came from within Clotho's hood. THE NUMBERS
  • To comment first on Monsignor Maniscalco's letter: of course Pius XII was concerned for the Jews and their fate, and he abominated the Nazis.
  • He's back in Palm Beach, out on bail -- paid for by his friend and fellow conservative Roger Hertog -- because the Supreme Court has ruled that he, along with other various abominated businessmen (including former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling), was convicted under a way-too-vague law. Michael Wolff: Conrad Black Is My Hero
  • He abominated such manifestations of the debasement of the modern age as cars, wireless sets and refrigerators; cherished the past; feared the future; and found in the societies he investigated a way of life and a moral attitude that seemed infinitely more important than anything on offer in the "civilized" West. Drawn to Harsh Places
  • This heap of unpopularity notwithstanding, the Supreme Court said last week the government wrongly prosecuted the abominated Jeff Skilling under something called the "honest services fraud" law. A Plague of Vagueness
  • You're filth, you're cack, you're the ooze of a burst boil; I abominate you, you towering mound of corrupted slime. James Gordon Brown on markets and spinning facts.
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