abhorrence
Example Sentences
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Abhorrence of prosecutorial abuse should reinforce the principle of legal equality.
From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2023
Abhorrence lurks in “a version,” as Tarasoff’s haunted house suggests.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2020
Abhorrence of wastefulness is not unique to Japan; it is a human value that is widely embraced.
From Slate • May 13, 2019
The Eccentric Abhorrence Williams also points to a memorandum in a 1953 issue of the Pennsylvania Law Review as evidence of widespread misunderstanding of the Fifth Amendment.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is no wish of mine to vaunt my merits, But, if I may lay claim to any virtue, I think beyond all else I have display'd Abhorrence of those sins with which I'm charged.
From Phaedra by Boswell, Robert Bruce
Vocabulary lists containing abhorrence
The Book Thief
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Stories of Ourselves
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