abominate

I absolutely deplore and abominate, however, the person that Clinton is.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is little that Osborne does not abominate.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I am not an intolerant woman, but I abominate stupidity," she says.

From Time Magazine Archive

They abominate the starched prosiness of the northern Haskell clan into which Sara marries, but they are game.

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You got me out of this place and here’s your reward; you’re everything we jointly abominate.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

She knows his tastes, his desires and reprehensions – "beans he abominates" – and follows his progress, his growth in years and learning, with an almost maternal eye.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2011

He abominates his widowed father, a pompous timber merchant, accusing him of real and fancied slights to his dead mother.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though he abominates small talk, Manning has taught himself a few conversational gambits.

From Time Magazine Archive

He rails against the world around him, which he abominates as degraded and contemptible.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have the reputation of 'independent,' a manner of 'Oh! no, we never mention it, sir,' in the official catalogue, and the one unpardonable Chinese Gordon has been sacked for being 'eccentric,' which Society abominates.

From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Thomas Wright

This Dinocrates had been my brother in the flesh, seven years old, who being diseased with ulcers of the face had come to a horrible death, so that his death was abominated of all men.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019

Nor was he remotely touchy-feely — a locution he would have abominated — apparently shrinking even from handshakes and hugs.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2018

An early supporter of Nelson Mandela – he sent him books in prison – Astor abominated apartheid, supported the Nagas of north-east India, and famously denounced Anthony Eden over Suez in 1956.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2011

Even so, he seems genuinely to have abominated slavery, and he expressed terrible premonitions: "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."

From Time Magazine Archive

Goethe abominated smoking, though he was a German.

From Methods of Authors by Hugo Erichsen

Especially when we consider how readily these personal qualities prove themselves to the general understanding, and how cheerfully they are always allowed by jealous and abominating competitors!

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp

His right eye was still weak from the effects of a powder explosion; and whenever it bothered him he wore a single glass, abominating, as all soldiers do, the burden of spectacles.

From The Goose Girl by Harold MacGrath

She had remained unmarried, abominating the world after certain deceptions in her youth for which Jaime's father had been responsible.

From The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan by Frances Douglas

History, always abominating lapses, is yet more tender of some places than others.

From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Lewis Wallace

I could never approve in thy uncle this machine for spiritual ductility; besides, I have for all wax puppets such an abominating, shuddering dread.

From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul