abhorred
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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
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
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
One concerned a house wife who abhorred spiders.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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