abomination
Example Sentences
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“The Last Matinee” epitomizes a style I think of as slow horror — not in the sense of a foot-dragging narrative, but in the extreme patience and relish with which it attends to its abominations.
From New York Times
Mayonnaise is — it must be — another nonnegotiable, with the abomination that is Miracle Whip beneath consideration.
From Seattle Times
Mohabir is disowned by his father as an “abomination” because of his sexual orientation and outed by a cousin to his extended family.
From Washington Post
“The Little Mermaid,” as it was constructed by Disney, is an abomination.
From New York Times
So this new holiday will mark the end of an abomination extended by deliberate and diabolical obfuscation.
From Washington Post
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