Thesaurus / abhorrent
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Most of the media coverage and popular debate around Rowling framed her views as abhorrent.
CAN MORE HARRY POTTER EVER BE OKAY?AJA ROMANOFEBRUARY 1, 2021VOXI was reminded of that revelation while reading about last week’s abhorrent Capitol Hill riots.
COUP D’ETATS IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNETROBERT HACKETTJANUARY 12, 2021FORTUNEHis constant and divisive rhetoric led to the abhorrent actions we saw today.
WOMAN DIES AFTER SHOOTING IN U.S. CAPITOL; D.C. NATIONAL GUARD ACTIVATED AFTER MOB BREACHES BUILDINGWASHINGTON POST STAFFJANUARY 7, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe formula for deciding how many electors to assign to each state was especially problematic because it replicated the abhorrent three-fifths compromise used to distribute seats in the House.
THE U.S.’S ELECTORAL COLLEGE IS AN EPIC DESIGN FAILCLAYCHANDLERNOVEMBER 3, 2020FORTUNEAt a time when many in our community require services to make it through an isolating pandemic, attempting to grant providers a license to discriminate is abhorrent.
TEXAS ASSAILED FOR ALLOWING SOCIAL WORKERS TO TURN AWAY LGBTQ, DISABLED PATIENTSCHRIS JOHNSONOCTOBER 20, 2020WASHINGTON BLADE"I cannot tell you, Fina," said Leam, to whom falsehoods were abhorrent and the truth impossible.
LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCEVARIOUSBut to Bierce's mind, "noble and nude and antique," this mid-Victorian draping and bedecking of "unpleasant truths" was abhorrent.
THE LETTERS OF AMBROSE BIERCEAMBROSE BIERCEBecause it is a law abhorrent to the moral and religious sentiments of a vast majority of the community called upon to enforce it.
THE DUTY OF DISOBEDIENCE TO THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACTLYDIA MARIA CHILDYet, in some indescribable way, she reminded him of Nancy, and the notion was so grotesque and abhorrent that he shuddered.
THE TERMS OF SURRENDERLOUIS TRACYBut let us do justice to those who shun such abhorrent spectacles, and who cannot endure to look upon an execution.
BROTHER JACQUES (NOVELS OF PAUL DE KOCK, VOLUME XVII)CHARLES PAUL DE KOCKWORDS RELATED TO ABHORRENT
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.