abhorring

Example Sentences

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All had the backbone to join multiple Republicans in sharply abhorring the scandal.

From Washington Times • Jul. 21, 2020

Despite abhorring analytics, Barkley’s adventures in mathematics have routinely made for amazing television.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2018

Politically, he remained exceptionally conservative, abhorring social unrest and invariably supporting law and order.

From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2017

The libretto, by Mr. Morrison and John Cox, an opera director and Wilde scholar, is a high-minded affair, preaching tolerance and abhorring bigotry at every turn.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2013

It is not by abhorring slavery that you can put an end to the institution.

From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)