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abhorring
verb as in regard with contempt or disgust
Strong match
Example Sentences
He was a man of ‘great honesty,’ abhorring any deceit in the art he loved and studied.
Abhorring equally the toil and the degradation, he deemed it a duty to prevent such a fall, and put his hope in his uncle.
The Buckle had been Ronald's fairy godmother—yet his father did not blame him for abhorring and disowning it.
It is common to regard them in no other light than as a severe, somber, and pleasure-abhorring generation.
Both were unquiet spirits in the regiment, abhorring the monotony of drill and stables, and insatiable for leave.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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