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/ɐbˈɒmɪnəbli/
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ADVERB
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in a terrible manner
she sings terribly -
in an offensive and hateful manner
I don't know anyone who could have behaved so abominably
How To Use abominably In A Sentence
- Thabo Mbeki, had behaved "abominably", Ellis said. ANC Daily News Briefing
- Andre Joseph Leonard, archbishop of Mechelen-Brussel, criticised the church for often worrying more about the reputation of priests and "abominably" exploiting the abused children, according to a copy of his Easter homily released on Saturday. The Times of India
- Germany have played abominably, and Ribbeck seems to change his mind for every game.
- The way in which Longus excites the sensual desires of the lovers by means of licentious experiments going always only to the verge of gratification, betrays an abominably hypocritical _raffinement_ [331] which reveals in the most disagreeable manner that the naïveté of this idyllist is a premeditated artifice and he himself nothing but a sophist. Primitive Love and Love-Stories
- In words that I can only describe as abominably ignorant, a number of state legislators and others have said the following regarding President Obama's planned address to school children regarding education and achievement via the Internet Tuesday: Jim Lichtman: Uncommon Sense
- As long as it's in abominably bad taste, go for it!
- The doctor in the base camp knows that he will be abominably "strafed" if he sends "crocks" to the front. A Padre in France
- She had been abominably uncivil to him, and she would not be surprised if he took umbrage.
- All these are microeconomic areas over which the government still has direct control - and has failed abominably.
- I suppose we have both been abominably rude to each other by eavesdropping.