abominate

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

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

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

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There is little that Osborne does not abominate.

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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

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

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

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

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He abominates work with such a crowning intensity, that the very pretence of it is a torture to him.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852 by William Chambers

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

In New Delhi, Mahatma Gandhi was murdered; India's blood bath subsided in shocked dismay and its legislature legally abolished the untouchability which, in life, Gandhi had abominated above all of India's other woes.

From Time Magazine Archive

As I abominated the man’s trade, so I had expected to detest the man himself; and behold, I liked him.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Both agreed in abominating the present state of Affairs.

From Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816) by Edward Stanley

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

There was once a compliance between the nobles of Judah and the Samaritans, which I hope you do not read of without abominating the thing: You find it, Neh. vi.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie

Definitely, abominating the wheel, he rent it to bits in his imagination, experiencing the joy of the convict who passes out through the door of his prison and breathes the air of freedom.

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