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Meanings of abhorrent in English

Offensive to the mind.

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Causing disgust or detestation.

Usage of abhorrent in English
1
The fact that 90 of these offences were Covid-related is particularly abhorrent.
BBC
2
This abhorrent act has mutilated, injured and traumatised hundreds of innocent people.
The Irish Times
3
It isn't only the betrayal but the end result I find abhorrent.
Accidentally the sheikh's wife
4
He said: Forced marriage is abhorrent and is little more than slavery.
The Irish Times
5
The conditions under which the Spanish flu overtook the world were abhorrent.
News.com.au
6
The things he does are clearly more than transgressive: they are abhorrent.
The Guardian
7
As abhorrent as his actions were, kidnap was another order of magnitude.
The skein of lament
8
The idea of accounts with his children had been abhorrent to him.
The Second Generation
9
Fleetwood was the civiller; his immediate prospective duties being clear, however abhorrent.
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 5
10
On the other hand they like us, and find the English abhorrent.
Montlivet
11
It is abhorrent and we fully disassociate ourselves from the views expressed.
The South African
12
It is abhorrent for a wolf-or a man-to lose control over himself.
The Wolf’s Hour
13
He said eating the carcasses of murdered beasts was abhorrent to him.
Somewhere in Red Gap
14
But there's something abhorrent about the attitude of many English rugby fans.
The South African
15
Mampintsha has maintained his innocence, chalking up his abhorrent actions to self-defence.
The South African
16
At first it did seem abhorrent, but she glossed it over so-
Jane Allen, Junior
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
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