abhorring

Example Sentences

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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

Despite abhorring analytics, Barkley’s adventures in mathematics have routinely made for amazing television.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2018

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

We who abide by the laws are surely justified in shunning, in abhorring, those who deliberately break them.

From The Benefactress by Elizabeth