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abhorring



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He was a fighter for poor minorities, abhorring the gang violence that had taken over in his adopted home of Los Angeles and working for decades to help disadvantaged inner-city kids.

From Washington Times May 20, 2023

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

From Washington Post Apr. 18, 2017

The Legion sought a more national and collective or communal basis for the economy, while abhorring the materialism of capitalism and of socialism.

From Slate Feb. 21, 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

Let us suppose that the father of a family, a man of strong will, and steadfastly abhorring evil, should conceive the project of forcibly shutting it out from his home.

From Pastor Pastorum by Latham, Rev. Henry



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