How To Use Abominate In A Sentence
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It had occurred in the course of learning the nature of white men and of learning to abominate them.
Chapter 2
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Anthony abominates his fantasies, but again hears a subversive voice.
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But you know what they say; it's an honor just to be abominated.
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His most ambitious music was abominated by conservative critics and also baffled concert audiences.
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Peter abominated plaid as the enemy of paisley, a pattern he loved above all others.
Why I Can't Be a Hare Krishna
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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.
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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.
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Such asses fill the world with their braying and are to be abominated as beneath contempt.
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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?
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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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I detest and loathe and despise and abore and abominate her
Dear Anjali
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And he disappears amidst the unstoppable mob heading to classrooms, he is now gone and now I'm gone too, taking a class I now abominate.
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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.
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In fact, contact with many of them has taught me that it is possible to abominate the crime without always abominating the criminal.
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Anomalous creatures were abominated as unclean and were forbidden for food.
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I have loathed the light of the sun, I have shrunk from the commerce of my fellow creatures; the voice of man I have detested, his sight I have abominated! — but oh, more than all should I be abominated myself!
Cecilia
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I hate the French cookery, and abominate garlick," Tobias Smollett told his readers 245 years ago, with a snooty disregard for foreigners that runs through too much travel writing today.
Travel writing: Lost art in search of a lost world | Editorial
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I hate the French cookery, and abominate garlick," Tobias Smollett told his readers 245 years ago, with a snooty disregard for foreigners that runs through too much travel writing today.
Travel writing: Lost art in search of a lost world | Editorial
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He abominates anarchism; he thinks it's chaotic, sloppy-minded, infantile, inadvertently authoritarian.
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For instance, early in the voyage at Bahia in Brazil he defended and praised slavery, which I abominated, and told me that he had just visited a great slave-owner, who had called up many of his slaves and asked them whether they were happy, and whether they wished to be free, and all answered "No.
Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D.: Glenn Beck Wrong on Darwin: How Evolution Affirms the Oneness of Humankind
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She abominates Beijing Opera.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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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Again and again he declared that he would vigorously enforce laws which he abominates, on civil rights, abortion rights, gay rights, etc.
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Correspondent Edwin Emerson went further, writing that "London, according to his own professions, loathed and abominated the Japanese, and who has learned to appreciate their dominant trait of hiding their own feelings, cannot but realize that a man coming to them with such a disposition need never to get anything out of them.
JACK LONDON'S WAR
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As one who abominates everything the Third Reich stood for, I could not bring myself to judge her.
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I abominate obscenities, but she is a bitch—a stringy, fawning female dog.
TOO MANY MURDERS
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The welfare of the commonwealth was always upon the conscience of Ezekiel Cheever," said Judge Sewall, "and he abominated periwigs.
'Cheever: A Life'
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Football, on the other hand, takes working-class people and drops them into enormous tubs of money, interviews them constantly and then abominates their lack of taste and inarticulacy.
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For this reason he abominated French impressionism.
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He was temperate in eating and drinking, abominated drunkenness, and kept in good health despite every exposure and hardship.
Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 28 Jan 814
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Thereafter Kemble gave readings of Shakespeare across the country, attracting the likes of the dissenting minister who told him that ‘though I abominate the stage yet I am a patron of Shakespeare in my social hours’.