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US
/əˌbɑməˈneɪʃən/
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[ UK /ɐbˌɒmɪnˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɐbˌɒmɪnˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- hate coupled with disgust
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an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence
his treatment of the children is an abomination - a person who is loathsome or disgusting
How To Use abomination In A Sentence
- I am bored by Monkey Wood's blantant over-use of charientism and cacophemism for my darkie brethren - it is an abomination to the Lord - who is ironically my next door neighbour ". TheSpoof.com : Spoof News : Front Page
- Close by the door stood the mixen, a collection of every abomination -- streams from which, in rainy weather, fertilized the lower meadows, generally the lord's pasture, and polluted the stream. The Necessity of Atheism
- _ Oh! 'Tis an Abomination to look like a Gentleman; long Hair is wicked and cavalierish, a Periwig is flat Popery, the Disguise of the The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I
- And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
- But this so-called foundling is a perfect monster of abomination, said Jehanne. I. Charitable Souls. Book IV
- The word for abomination here is tô ‛ êbah, which is not the word often used for ritual uncleanness, but is often used for sexual sin, in particular sexual sins and including sodomy. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
- Every creature on the planet has it's place in nature, but the tick is an abomination. Rain, Rain, Go Away
- The Carrizoso plateau had been sacred ground, and it was unsupposable that it could ever be desecrated by the trampling hoofs and scissor noses of these woolly abominations. Heart's Desire
- In Brazil, though rich in luxuriant vegetable and animal life, there is no history – all is new and progressive, but vulgar and parvenu; whereas Syria, in her abomination of desolation, is the old land, and she teems with relics of departed glory. The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
- A scope mounted that high on a fine double rife is an abomination. The 50 Best Guns Ever Made (41-50)