abhor

This isn’t a threat, but a reality I feel I need to convey explicitly, because as a diplomat and a veteran, I abhor war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026

Briloff would say that markets abhor uncertainty, and less frequent reporting only adds more.

From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025

“I disagree with or even abhor things that Nick Fuentes says, but canceling him isn’t the answer either.”

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2025

And Pam Bondi, Trump’s nominee for attorney general, testified days later at her Senate confirmation hearing that pardons would be decided “on a case-by-case basis. And I abhor violence to police officers.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2025

I abhor the rainbow stripe and would prefer something along the lines of a simple skull and crossbones.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

Martin abhors a perfect soul, and loves a human heart in conflict with itself and the world.

From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2026

During the conversation, Muir makes it clear he abhors crowded trades.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 22, 2026

That, however, would require something Generation Z abhors: boredom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025

Nature abhors a vacuum and markets aren’t all that keen on it either.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

Pascal’s interpretation of the experiment was in direct contradiction to Aristotle’s claim that nature abhors a vacuum.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

He was a political progressive who abhorred radicalism, an antimonopolist who recognized the inevitability of large corporations and chose to regulate rather than ban them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025

Petitions poured into the office of Gov. Edmund “Pat” Brown, a Democrat who believed Chessman guilty but abhorred the death penalty on religious grounds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2024

Senators, Sandvine later announced that it would no longer work with Belarus, saying that it abhorred “the use of technology to suppress the free flow of information resulting in human rights violations.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

There was also a scientific reason that the vegetable came to be abhorred by many whose parents and grandparents had loved the vegetable.

From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2023

“I abhor that girl! I abhorred her all my life and I do not know how to stop to abhor her.”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

All had the backbone to join multiple Republicans in sharply abhorring the scandal.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 21, 2020

Kennedy sought liberal outcomes while abhorring instability and uncertainty.

From Slate ● May 27, 2017

Politically, he remained exceptionally conservative, abhorring social unrest and invariably supporting law and order.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2017

The libretto, by Mr. Morrison and John Cox, an opera director and Wilde scholar, is a high-minded affair, preaching tolerance and abhorring bigotry at every turn.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2013

He was a man of ‘great honesty,’ abhorring any deceit in the art he loved and studied.

From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport)