abhor

“I have experienced discrimination, which I abhor when directed to me or to anyone else,” said DeJute, who is gay.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

The front-runner, 60-year-old BNP chairman Tarique Rahman, represents the dynastic politics that many educated Bangladeshis abhor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 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

Who cares if members of your family abhor your Inner Stickler and devoutly wish you had an Inner Scooby-Doo instead?

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author

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

That, however, would require something Generation Z abhors: boredom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

But Pascal’s simple experiment demolished Aristotle’s assertion that nature abhors a vacuum.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

He added, though, “I very much abhorred Jan. 6. There’s no cause for violence.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 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

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

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

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

That I may be loyal to my Prince, and faithful to my country, careful for its good, valiant in its defence, and obedient to its Laws, abhorring Treason as much as Tyranny,—Help me, O Father!

From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson