abhorred

Example Sentences

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The public both abhorred and adored the scandal.

From Salon • Mar. 7, 2026

He was a political progressive who abhorred radicalism, an antimonopolist who recognized the inevitability of large corporations and chose to regulate rather than ban them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

He was also a silver-tongued intellectual who abhorred boorish thinking and behavior and savored debates with the sharpest minds of his era.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2024

Senators, Sandvine later announced that it would no longer work with Belarus, saying that it abhorred “the use of technology to suppress the free flow of information resulting in human rights violations.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 29, 2024

To agitate him thus deeply, by a resistance he so abhorred, was cruel: to yield was out of the question.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë