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

The vote confounded critics of O'Connor, who had previously expressed her personal abhorrence of abortion.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2023

To Pascal, this seemingly bizarre behavior proved that it wasn’t an abhorrence of the vacuum that drove the mercury up the tube.

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