abominably
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Our chickens, on the other hand, are treated abominably, packed in tightly with their germy brethren, raised in squalor, pumped with hormones, and only made clean at the end.
From Slate • Feb. 13, 2026
Mr Chope then tells the chamber: "The right honourable lady has behaved abominably."
From BBC • Jul. 20, 2024
He treats his troops abominably, whether he’s deserting them in Egypt, condemning them to a death march through a Russian winter or sending them into the hopeless onslaught of Waterloo.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2023
Up to and including its cheap shock ending, “The Lie” invests all its meager stock in the facile, simple-minded idea that depicting banal, outwardly genteel people behaving abominably sheds a profound light on human nature.
From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2020
Presently he felt soothed and distant, though his hand was hurting abominably.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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Vocabulary lists containing abominably
"The Odyssey," Vocabulary from Part 1 of the epic poem
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Vocabulary from "Crime and Punishment" Part V, Chapters I-III
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