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abhorred

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1. abhorred - Adjective

2. abhorred - Verb

Derived from abhor

Meaning

of Abhor

Source: Webster's dictionary

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His strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing and jazz - everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime. Evelyn Waugh

I have always abhorred the word 'racism.' I never use it. Jim Clyburn

The children of the prophets of the Lord, Prince, priest, and people, spurned by zealot hate. Hounded from sea to sea, from state to state, The West refused them, and the East abhorred. No anchorage the known world could afford. Emma Lazarus

Brittle beauty, that Nature made so frail, Whereof the gift is small, and short the season; Flowering to-day, to-morrow apt to fail; Tickle treasure, abhorred of reason: Dangerous to deal with, vain, of none avail; Costly in keeping, past not worth two peason. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

The treason approved, the traitor abhorred. Portuguese Proverb

A friend's fault should be known but not abhorred. Portuguese Proverb

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