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Meanings of abhorrent in English
Synonyms
Examples for "repulsive"
Examples for "repulsive"
1
His manners are to ninety-nine in one hundred singularly repulsive; brow-hanging; shoe-contemplating-strange
2
This result suggests that the observed trend is driven by repulsive interactions.
3
Clearly, the Council finds the recent activities of the Fomor somewhat repulsive.
4
Most people agree that at some level wealth starts to become repulsive.
5
Yet to us the system is not the less repulsive in itself.
1
They're pointless. They were obscene questions that dealt with personal, private matters.
2
He also let loose with an obscene epigram to the effect that:
3
The obscene display here was just an attempt to one-up the competition.
4
The obscene display of wealth, bling and power was making me apathetic.
5
His obscene face wore a suffering and preoccupied expression; then he said:
1
Above the general din he heard the detestable voice of the turnkey.
2
The national taste, in the meantime, was to the last degree detestable.
3
The vulnerable side of Tony Soprano made his detestable character deeply likable.
4
They'd be right to detest us: beside them, we would be detestable.
5
So I went on to a detestable brutal inn in the town.
1
I cannot imagine a more repugnant view for a candidate to hold.
2
As he contemplated his return to the Waziri the idea became repugnant.
3
Anything like free and open competition was repugnant to the general feeling.
4
The idea implies a right of veto which is repugnant to me.
5
A Lib Dem spokesman said: Cyril Smith's acts were vile and repugnant.
Usage of abhorrent in English
1
The fact that 90 of these offences were Covid-related is particularly abhorrent.
2
This abhorrent act has mutilated, injured and traumatised hundreds of innocent people.
3
It isn't only the betrayal but the end result I find abhorrent.
4
He said: Forced marriage is abhorrent and is little more than slavery.
5
The conditions under which the Spanish flu overtook the world were abhorrent.
6
The things he does are clearly more than transgressive: they are abhorrent.
7
As abhorrent as his actions were, kidnap was another order of magnitude.
8
The idea of accounts with his children had been abhorrent to him.
9
Fleetwood was the civiller; his immediate prospective duties being clear, however abhorrent.
10
On the other hand they like us, and find the English abhorrent.
11
It is abhorrent and we fully disassociate ourselves from the views expressed.
12
It is abhorrent for a wolf-or a man-to lose control over himself.
13
He said eating the carcasses of murdered beasts was abhorrent to him.
14
But there's something abhorrent about the attitude of many English rugby fans.
15
Mampintsha has maintained his innocence, chalking up his abhorrent actions to self-defence.
16
At first it did seem abhorrent, but she glossed it over so-
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Abhorrent through the time
Abhorrent across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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