abhor

This isn’t a threat, but a reality I feel I need to convey explicitly, because as a diplomat and a veteran, I abhor war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026

Briloff would say that markets abhor uncertainty, and less frequent reporting only adds more.

From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025

“I disagree with or even abhor things that Nick Fuentes says, but canceling him isn’t the answer either.”

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2025

“We abhor and condemn antisemitism in any form,” the California Teachers Assn., wrote in a July letter to the state Senate Education Committee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025

Lord Darlington came to abhor anti-Semitism; I heard him express his disgust on several separate occasions when confronted with anti-Semitic sentiments.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

“Nature abhors a vacuum, and really, the only person who can speak for the committee is the chair,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Martin abhors a perfect soul, and loves a human heart in conflict with itself and the world.

From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2026

During the conversation, Muir makes it clear he abhors crowded trades.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 22, 2026

Nature abhors a vacuum and markets aren’t all that keen on it either.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

He says that when a species becomes extinct, some other species moves in to fill up the ecological niche, because Nature abhors a vacuum.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Mr. Paul explained, then and many times afterward, that he abhorred racism and supported abolition of discrimination in all governmental activity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

Petitions poured into the office of Gov. Edmund “Pat” Brown, a Democrat who believed Chessman guilty but abhorred the death penalty on religious grounds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2024

He was also a silver-tongued intellectual who abhorred boorish thinking and behavior and savored debates with the sharpest minds of his era.

From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2024

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

But Pauling abhorred this direct mechanism and was especially irritated by the suggestion that it was supported by quantum mechanics.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

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

Kennedy sought liberal outcomes while abhorring instability and uncertainty.

From Slate ● May 27, 2017

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

He that will give good words to ye will flatter Beneath abhorring.

From Tolstoy on Shakespeare A Critical Essay on Shakespeare by V. G. (Vladimir Grigorevich) Chertkov