abominate
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I absolutely deplore and abominate, however, the person that Clinton is.
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There is little that Osborne does not abominate.
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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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"I am not an intolerant woman, but I abominate stupidity," she says.
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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
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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.
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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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In short, plenty of all he abominates and nothing of all he loves.
From A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 by Samuel Smiles
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."
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He would scheme and ponder all the day long, but he abominated the labour of putting his ideas into tangible shape.
From The History of "Punch" by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann
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
What was exceptional, however, in his state of mind was that, while abominating the institution, he was able to give a sympathetic understanding to the opinions and to the prejudices of the slave-owners.
From Abraham Lincoln by George Haven Putnam
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
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
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