abhorrence

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Yet its historic affinity with Russia and its abhorrence of perceived American imperialism means the far left has sometimes seemed to make Putin’s points for him.

From New York Times

He continued to voice concerns about religious freedom for Christians in Muslim lands, and to express abhorrence of any violence committed in the name of God.

From New York Times

As he outlines in the show, his abhorrence of and yet interest in the roots of white nationalism led to discovering the Queens meeting and gaining admission without revealing his ethnicity.

From Washington Post

What's just as bad is the abhorrence problem, meaning that sometimes the original meaning of the Constitution is clear enough, but the results of an "originalist" interpretation would be morally abhorrent to most Americans today.

From Salon

These individuals had a lifelong abhorrence of federal regulations, many civil rights laws and disliked the constitutional right to privacy they believed the Supreme Court had improperly called into being 60 years earlier.

From Seattle Times