abhor

Example Sentences

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Briloff would say that markets abhor uncertainty, and less frequent reporting only adds more.

From Barron's

Ms. Keen-Minshull said in an interview with The New Zealand Herald that the people giving Nazi salutes were “absolutely not associated with me whatsoever,” adding: “I absolutely abhor anything to do with Nazis.”

From New York Times

Her mother, Rose Mary Walls, was a hardy free spirit who hoped to succeed as a painter and abhorred the idea of bourgeois life.

From New York Times

Most of the Hazara are Shi'ite Muslims, whom Sunni hardliners like the Taliban abhor, and the community has faced persecution and violence for decades, including recent attacks on a maternity hospital and a girls' school.

From Reuters

Certainly, anyone with a conservative streak abhors the thought of any government requiring anything of our most-private personal property — our bodies, ourselves.

From Washington Post