abhorred

Example Sentences

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The public both abhorred and adored the scandal.

From Salon • Mar. 7, 2026

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

Petitions poured into the office of Gov. Edmund “Pat” Brown, a Democrat who believed Chessman guilty but abhorred the death penalty on religious grounds.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2024

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

“I abhor that girl! I abhorred her all my life and I do not know how to stop to abhor her.”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell