abhorrent
Example Sentences
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The attacks were "sad and abhorrent", Ramaphosa said, adding that "we in South Africa deeply regret and mourn" the lives lost.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Freedman blasted the motion as “one of the most abhorrent examples of abusing our legal system.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
The Green Party and Jeremy Corbyn's Your Party have also warned the response to the "abhorrent" attacks should not restrict civil liberties.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
“We must also be very clear that any response to these abhorrent attacks that curtails our civil liberties would be wrong,” said Green Party leader Zack Polanski, who is Jewish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
But there was also something much deeper and more fundamentally abhorrent in the impact theory.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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