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abominate

verb as in detest

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In my capacity as a libertarian pundit, it is my solemn duty to abominate Washington.

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You got me out of this place and here’s your reward; you’re everything we jointly abominate.

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Nor was he remotely touchy-feely — a locution he would have abominated — apparently shrinking even from handshakes and hugs.

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In her bestselling essay Women & Power: A Manifesto, Mary Beard gives her readers a depressing history lesson about how classical society abominated the very idea of women speaking in public.

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To compound the irony, the American Social Security system that these 19th-century radicals abominate is modeled on the public pension policy of Wilhelmine Germany’s conservative chancellor Otto von Bismarck.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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