abhorring
Example Sentences
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He was a fighter for poor minorities, abhorring the gang violence that had taken over in his adopted home of Los Angeles and working for decades to help disadvantaged inner-city kids.
From Washington Times • May 20, 2023
Kennedy sought liberal outcomes while abhorring instability and uncertainty.
From Slate • May 27, 2017
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
They were cast ashore without resources, hating the poorhouse as a shelter for their offspring, and abhorring the thought of selling themselves as laborers.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I by Lodge, Henry Cabot
