abhorring

Example Sentences

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He was a fighter for poor minorities, abhorring the gang violence that had taken over in his adopted home of Los Angeles and working for decades to help disadvantaged inner-city kids.

From Washington Times • May 20, 2023

Despite abhorring analytics, Barkley’s adventures in mathematics have routinely made for amazing television.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2018

Politically, he remained exceptionally conservative, abhorring social unrest and invariably supporting law and order.

From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2017

The libretto, by Mr. Morrison and John Cox, an opera director and Wilde scholar, is a high-minded affair, preaching tolerance and abhorring bigotry at every turn.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2013

They were cast ashore without resources; hating the poor-house as a shelter for their offspring, and abhorring the thought of selling themselves as laborers.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various