abominate

There is little that Osborne does not abominate.

From Time Magazine Archive

I absolutely deplore and abominate, however, the person that Clinton is.

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They abominate the starched prosiness of the northern Haskell clan into which Sara marries, but they are game.

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"I am not an intolerant woman, but I abominate stupidity," she says.

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You got me out of this place and here’s your reward; you’re everything we jointly abominate.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

She knows his tastes, his desires and reprehensions – "beans he abominates" – and follows his progress, his growth in years and learning, with an almost maternal eye.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2011

He rails against the world around him, which he abominates as degraded and contemptible.

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Though he abominates small talk, Manning has taught himself a few conversational gambits.

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He abominates his widowed father, a pompous timber merchant, accusing him of real and fancied slights to his dead mother.

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God abominates a false balance, and delights in a just weight.

From In Times Like These by Nellie L. McClung

This Dinocrates had been my brother in the flesh, seven years old, who being diseased with ulcers of the face had come to a horrible death, so that his death was abominated of all men.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019

Nor was he remotely touchy-feely — a locution he would have abominated — apparently shrinking even from handshakes and hugs.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2018

An early supporter of Nelson Mandela – he sent him books in prison – Astor abominated apartheid, supported the Nagas of north-east India, and famously denounced Anthony Eden over Suez in 1956.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2011

Even so, he seems genuinely to have abominated slavery, and he expressed terrible premonitions: "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."

From Time Magazine Archive

It was not to be supposed that the soldiers had any tenderness for the Christians, but they abominated and despised the rabble of the town.

From Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by John Henry Newman

There was once a compliance between the nobles of Judah and the Samaritans, which I hope you do not read of without abominating the thing: You find it, Neh. vi.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie

I could never approve in thy uncle this machine for spiritual ductility; besides, I have for all wax puppets such an abominating, shuddering dread.

From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul

What was exceptional, however, in his state of mind was that, while abominating the institution, he was able to give a sympathetic understanding to the opinions and to the prejudices of the slave-owners.

From Abraham Lincoln by George Haven Putnam

She had remained unmarried, abominating the world after certain deceptions in her youth for which Jaime's father had been responsible.

From The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan by Frances Douglas

His right eye was still weak from the effects of a powder explosion; and whenever it bothered him he wore a single glass, abominating, as all soldiers do, the burden of spectacles.

From The Goose Girl by Harold MacGrath