abominate

Example Sentences

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In my capacity as a libertarian pundit, it is my solemn duty to abominate Washington.

From Washington Post

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

From New York Times

In her bestselling essay Women & Power: A Manifesto, Mary Beard gives her readers a depressing history lesson about how classical society abominated the very idea of women speaking in public.

From The Guardian

To compound the irony, the American Social Security system that these 19th-century radicals abominate is modeled on the public pension policy of Wilhelmine Germany’s conservative chancellor Otto von Bismarck.

From Salon

Proposition 45 is abominated by the insurance industry, which has provided virtually all of the $37 million collected to fight the initiative.

From Los Angeles Times