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    Use "abhorrent" in a sentence

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    abhorrent


    1. "Nothing beyond what anybody else with absolutely no connection to that abhorrent trade would know


    2. How could I, a normal boy from the Beirut suburbs, a boy destined for the traditional path no matter how much I might stray in youth, how could I feel this warmth for a man who could as easily kill me stone dead as look at me? Breakfast almost became a dread moment, a mixture of the sublime and the abhorrent


    3. He hoped Desa thought he was shuddering because he also thought it was such an abhorrent concept


    4. They were shunned by their own community for their apparently abhorrent anti-Semitic act, and were now doing time


    5. She seemed awfully angry to White Fox, who was still seeking to comprehend his friend’s disturbing behavior, and his abhorrent appearance—and that smell


    6. The Romans, they feared, would use an uprising, any disturbance of their dictatorial status quo, as they had many times in the past, to upbraid their truculent subjects additionally, in their sullen acquiescence to the rule of this abhorrent “invader


    7. The idea that the government could capture them and use them against their will was abhorrent


    8. ] their behavior was abhorrent; they became unbearable


    9. ] Their behavior was abhorrent; They became unbearable


    10. idea they find both unrealistic and abhorrent

    11. His philosophy contributed in no small measure to bringing about a peaceful transformation in South Africa and in healing the destructive human divisions that had been spawned by the abhorrent practice of apartheid…I called him the “sacred warrior” because of the manner in which he combined ethics and morality with a steely resolve that refused to compromise with the oppressor


    12. And at last among the lichen-grown ruins of their city only a single shape lurked, a stunted abhorrent perversion of nature


    13. The steps were carven each with the abhorrent figure of the Old Serpent, Set, so that at each step he planted his heel on the head of the Snake, as it was intended from old times


    14. In those abhorrent features the outlaw's dilated eyes seemed to see, like a shadow in the madness that enveloped him, a faint and terrible resemblance to the slave Thoth-amon


    15. The broken blade sank deep and Conan's arm was released as the abhorrent mouth gaped as in agony


    16. This might be some diabolical trap planned by Tarascus, but plunging headlong into a snare was less abhorrent to Conan's temperament than sitting meekly to await his doom


    17. are the main reasons for this abhorrent belief and behaviour


    18. the nose, abhorrent breath, a noticeable reduction in flying


    19. this kind of behaviour was both abhorrent and illegal


    20. I don’t know about your own personal opinions on the subject, Admiral, but I find the fact that the United States still practices and enforces racial segregation truly abhorrent

    21. was abhorrently sick of them, all of them


    22. At first I observed these abhorrent atrocities only at a distance,


    23. of her abhorrent dread


    24. Of course, the most abhorrent and devastating of wars have all resulted from nothing


    25. I could also add a fourth reason, a sentimental one rather than a practical one: we are humanists at heart and this business of wars, massacres, famines and general abuse and exploitation of the lower classes by a small class of nobles is abhorrent to our society, which highly prizes individual rights and promotes the equality of all, irrespective of race, sex or social rank


    26. They cannot swim — in fact, water is an abhorrent medium for them — so they could not have rescued Sylvie themselves


    27. abhorrent in the eyes of Adonai by compromising our worship


    28. "The taking of life is both abhorrent


    29. This will no doubt be welcomed by those Nationalists in the Province, who have long aspired to such an outcome, but may, at first sight, be thought to be abhorrent to the Unionists


    30. to the abhorrent Apartheid Practices of the

    31. Opposition to the country’s abhorrent Apartheid Policies also meant that South


    32. forced to abandon its abhorrent apartheid policies, Mandela was the


    33. ness governance and abhorrent laws of the apartheid era


    34. South Africa’s forty five odd years of abhorrent Apartheid rule were forgotten


    35. through the room as an abhorrent growl


    36. One of the first rocket ships to arrive on the planet, Milt would witness the complete transformation of the untainted sphere into the abhorrent, festering museum of human discharge it would become


    37. Abortion is an abhorrent, horrible procedure as any doctor or nurse who has ever performed can attest


    38. In fact, he had repeatedly been approached by women trying to seduce him, but he found that type of behaviour abhorrent which had led all his fellow officers to realise the extent of his pride and consummate chastity, and that he would never succumb to illicit acts


    39. And although divorce is a legal measure it is still abhorrent to God


    40. He will then find his body as an abhorrent record of all his misdeeds that makes his shame and humiliation increase more and more

    41. The truth would be especially abhorrent to the brain drug junkie


    42. The cold, empty Lutheran churches were abhorrent to her


    43. All speculation is abhorrent to me


    44. " The practice of "holy prostitution" at such temples was also abhorrent to the Hebrews


    45. drastic measures; the obsessive nature of such a compelling emotion and the abhorrent


    46. ese Teriz were the most abhorrent band of cutthroats


    47. He stood in disbelief aghast, amazed, and abhorrent


    48. One of the most repugnant and abhorrent acts of terrorism and ‘ethnic cleansing’ in the four years of conflict occurred towards the end of the war near Srebrenica


    49. These are the abhorrent base human acts resulting from the choice to manipulate intellectual and emotional experiences which manifest as intellectual, emotional and behavioural perversions against Self and others


    50. These are the abhorrent base human acts resulting from the personal choice to mix the desire to manipulate human base instincts, expressed through base thoughts, feelings, behaviours and content of speech, with the higher human constructs of intellect, cognition and emotion
























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    Synonyms for "abhorrent"

    nauseous abominable detestable disgusting hateful horrible horrifying antipathetic detesting loathing