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

After an international outcry, the man, Ahmad Alush, told reporters that his intention had not been to burn the scriptures but to underscore the abhorrence of such acts.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2023

What's just as bad is the abhorrence problem, meaning that sometimes the original meaning of the Constitution is clear enough, but the results of an "originalist" interpretation would be morally abhorrent to most Americans today.

From Salon • Sep. 11, 2022

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