abhorrent

Example Sentences

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So easily she asks such an abhorrent question.

From Literature

But I make Peeta eat the remainder because I want to keep tasting things, and the idea of throwing away food, as I see so many people doing so casually, is abhorrent to me.

From Literature

The latrines were so abhorrent that most people, Nepalese and Westerners alike, evacuated their bowels outside on the open ground, wherever the urge struck.

From Literature

Tonsures, pigtails, head completely shaved but for a single forelock, long sides drawn into a queue with a raffish short-cut roach in the middle—all of it was prideful and abhorrent to the Pilgrims.

From Literature

But there was also something much deeper and more fundamentally abhorrent in the impact theory.

From Literature