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.
And who could forget “the Pan,” described by the author as “a repulsive and unsatisfactory arrangement that was to be alternately praised … and abhorred” by 18th-century sanitarians?
From New York Times
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
He added, though, “I very much abhorred Jan. 6. There’s no cause for violence.”
From Los Angeles Times
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
