abhorrent
Example Sentences
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Everyone agreed the tree looked abhorrent and it was removed later that day.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
“We must also be very clear that any response to these abhorrent attacks that curtails our civil liberties would be wrong,” said Green Party leader Zack Polanski, who is Jewish.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
The University of Queensland said in a statement to the BBC that Chun's comments were "abhorrent and hateful to the innocent victims of the attack".
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
"They have acted in a way that I think is abhorrent and I really can't forgive them for that because this is my son, again, at the bottom of this," he said.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
Tonsures, pigtails, head completely shaved but for a single forelock, long sides drawn into a queue with a raffish short-cut roach in the middle—all of it was prideful and abhorrent to the Pilgrims.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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