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abominable

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1. abominable - Adjective

2. abominable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.

Excessive; large; -- used as an intensive.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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All sins are abominable before God, but most abominable of all is the pride of the heart. Anthony the Great

The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise. André Gide

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy. Jorge Luis Borges

The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it. Jorge Luis Borges

If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will. J. D. Salinger

Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey. Jean-Paul Sartre

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