abhorred

Example Sentences

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By the late-19th century, “Grub Street” had become a generic term for ambitious, worldly—and mostly talentless—writers, everything the classicist Gissing abhorred.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

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

Her mother, Rose Mary Walls, was a hardy free spirit who hoped to succeed as a painter and abhorred the idea of bourgeois life.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2023

Emma must have had mixed feelings about her daughter not being confirmed, but she abhorred hypocrisy.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman