abhor
IPA: æbhˈɔr
verb
- (transitive) To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward.
- (transitive, obsolete, impersonal) To fill with horror or disgust.
- (transitive) To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject.
- (transitive, canon law, obsolete) To protest against; to reject solemnly.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To feel horror, disgust, or dislike (towards); to be contrary or averse (to); construed with from.
- (intransitive, obsolete) Differ entirely from.
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Examples of "abhor" in Sentences
- I abhor racism and antisemitism.
- I absolutely abhor the murderer.
- I abhor the message of the Leuchter Report.
- I abhor the whole thing and won't touch it.
- Islam abhors deification of any human being.
- I abhor racism and antisemitism and the like.
- He is abhorant against anyone who is in pulpit.
- The only thing that it abhors is permanently sodden ground.
- To be honest, I kind of abhor the title of "space tourist."
- The Haighlei simultaneously abhor change, and also adore it.
- Most women I am sure would abhor me -- yes, Dorcas -- _abhor_ me. '
- He loved iniquity, delighted in fraud, hated truth, and abhorred sincerity.
- Here, values are not to be attached to objects; instead, we should value (or "abhor") processes.
- Can't say I fancy the job much, but the only thing I positively abhor is 'faking' a society letter.
- There is another way, which you and your ken would abhor, that is to grant a basic respect for other humans.
- He said of them “whose actions I ever did abhor, that is, their Destruction of others, amongst whom I yet lived with a kind of shameless bashfulness.”
- Censorship of the President of the United States of America without prior and complete information, i.e. the speech, is to be abhorred. "abhor" - "to regard with extreme repugnance."
- Mr. Beck, this scary “social justice” phrase you abhor is exactly what many believe is the correct objective for churches and other community organizations, saving the taxpayer millions upon millions upon millions of dollars annually.
- Saint Augustine admits that he lived with a fast set, as people say now -- "the Depravers" or "Destroyers"; though he loved them little, "whose actions I ever did abhor, that is, their Destruction of others, amongst whom I yet lived with a kind of shameless bashfulness."
- All the hellish arts of malice and falsehood are made use of to render them odious or despicable; their words and actions are misconstrued, even that which they abhor is fathered upon them, laws are made to ensnare them (Dan.vi. 4, &c.), and all to ruin them and root them out.