abominate

[ UK /ɐbˈɒmɪnˌe‍ɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. find repugnant
    She abhors cats
    I loathe that man
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How To Use abominate In A Sentence

  • It had occurred in the course of learning the nature of white men and of learning to abominate them. Chapter 2
  • Anthony abominates his fantasies, but again hears a subversive voice.
  • But you know what they say; it's an honor just to be abominated.
  • His most ambitious music was abominated by conservative critics and also baffled concert audiences.
  • Peter abominated plaid as the enemy of paisley, a pattern he loved above all others. Why I Can't Be a Hare Krishna
  • A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
  • Poets in this tradition are less likely to abominate the larger society than to ignore it altogether and to concentrate on a narrow range of personal and domestic subjects.
  • Such asses fill the world with their braying and are to be abominated as beneath contempt.
  • Could it be that when Silone wrote to Bellone in 1931 about ‘the evil I have done’, he meant the evil of communism whose servant he had been and which he had come to abominate?
  • Sometimes, I abominate feminism, for it discloses to me that what surrounds me is wrong, and it increases my expectations for a better society.
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