abhor
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Abhor the message, not the messenger, Mr. Otoo advises.
From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2022
In Chapter 4, “News Media Abhor a Vacuum,” Mr. Sitrick lays out one of his key tenets: that strategic press representatives must engage the media; “no comment” should never be a first resort.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2018
Abhor, ab-hor′, v.t. to shrink from with horror: to detest: to loathe:—pr.p. abhor′ring; pa.p. abhorred′.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Abhor being fat, unshapely, and be unhappy over it, but never tell others how you feel.
From Supreme Personality by Croft, Delmer Eugene
Cities ye shall spurn: Live in the woods; live singly, winning each, Hunter or fisher by blue lakes, his prey: Abhor the gilded shrine: the God Unknown In such abides not.
From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey
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