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abhorrent

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1. abhorrent - Adjective

2. abhorrent - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts.

Contrary or repugnant; discordant; inconsistent; -- followed by to.

Detestable.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. James Joyce

Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union. Terry Eagleton

In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war. Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

We came into a homeless frontier, a place where we were not welcome, where nothing that lived was welcome, where thought and logic were abhorrent and we were frightened, but we went into this place because the universe lay before us, and if we were to know ourselves, we must know the universe... Clifford D. Simak

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands. Tony Blair

No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper, and deliver his sermon without asking anyone's permission. The contrary suggestion is abhorrent to our traditions. William O. Douglas

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