abominate

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

From Time Magazine Archive

There is little that Osborne does not abominate.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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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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The fellah is laborious in the fields, and abominates absence from his occupations, which generally means loss of money to him.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

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

He abominated cant, and loathed low tricks which no one who wished to be regarded as honourable would resort to in order to gain a special end. 

From The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales by R. Rice Davies

For they, abominating all images, worshipped God only by fire.”

From The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets by Eleazar Lord

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

Both agreed in abominating the present state of Affairs.

From Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816) by Edward Stanley

Definitely, abominating the wheel, he rent it to bits in his imagination, experiencing the joy of the convict who passes out through the door of his prison and breathes the air of freedom.

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