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be abhorrent



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The BBC understands the activist's messages had not been brought to attention of the prime minister until they were highlighted in recent days - and the government considers them to be abhorrent.

From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025

But I also find the whole field to be abhorrent.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2020

That logic should be abhorrent but there has been little outrage from the American people.

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2020

In addition, abuse of power can be abhorrent without being a violation of the law.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 25, 2018

The Mercury replied that if he "were a second Washington, or an angel upon earth, the degradation such a surrender of our rights implies would still be abhorrent to every freeman."

From The Day of the Confederacy; a chronicle of the embattled South by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson


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