abhorrence

Example Sentences

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The gingery hero of “Bookish” has an abhorrence of murder.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

It had everything to do with the public’s interest in the news and the First Amendment’s abhorrence of prior restraints.

From Slate • May 21, 2024

In general, we can say that police harbor a kind of natural abhorrence of protest because it's disorderly and policing is about the production of social order.

From Salon • May 14, 2024

Police have described as an "abhorrence" an officer sacked over a relationship with a domestic abuse victim.

From BBC • Oct. 14, 2021

Zero and infinity had destroyed the Arisotelian philosophy; the void and the infinite cosmos had eliminated the nutshell universe and the idea of nature’s abhorrence of the vacuum.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife