abhorred
Example Sentences
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By the late-19th century, “Grub Street” had become a generic term for ambitious, worldly—and mostly talentless—writers, everything the classicist Gissing abhorred.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
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
There was also a scientific reason that the vegetable came to be abhorred by many whose parents and grandparents had loved the vegetable.
From Salon • Nov. 20, 2023
He is so beloved that many people in that world who abhorred the Astros for their cheating find themselves rooting for Baker.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2022
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
