Sentence examples for Abominate from inspiring English sources
The word "Abominate" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to express a strong dislike or hatred for something. Example: "She abominates the idea of animal cruelty and advocates for their protection."
verb
To feel disgust towards; to abhor; to loathe or detest thoroughly; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread.
Significantly, Mr Bush (like Elizabeth Dole, another rival) has refused to endorse harsh measures against abortion or to abominate all gun control, articles of faith for many Republican activists.All the same, if he wins the nomination and that still seems the best bet he will find that his brand of Republicanism has already begun to change the party to his advantage.
In Mr Verity's translation, Achilles's outburst above becomes the prim "I abominate his gifts, and I value him no more than a splinter".
Federico, do you remember… But then: And one morning all that was burning one morning the bonfires leapt out of the earth devouring human beings — The attackers, he writes, were Jackals that the jackals would despise, stones that the dry thistle would bite on and spit out, vipers that the vipers would abominate!
Even before travelling to Mecca and Medina, he concludes, "I cannot help noticing it as extraordinary, that the Mahometan should abominate the christian on account of his faith, and the christian detest the Mussulman for his creed; when the koran of the former acknowledges the divinity of the christian Messias, and the bible of the latter commands us to love our enemies".
Women leaving hotels following trysts with their extramarital lovers tell pollsters they abominate Mr. Clinton's behavior.
Sacks relates how one Convers Francis, taking tea with a "family belonging to the straitest sect of Boston conservatism," found that his hosts "abhor & abominate R. W. Emerson as a sort of mad dog: & when I defended that pure and angelic spirit... they laughed at me with amazement".
There were disagreements: in particular, over Turkey's dream of joining the European Union, which Mr Denktash abominated because the EU insisted on recognising only the Greek-Cypriot part of the island, which had joined in 2004.
In interviews he was amiable, even sentimental; he laughed readily until, like a bear's, the gaze set and the broad claw swiped at something he abominated.
He abominated his country's determined land-clearing.
Nonetheless, independent India abominated the practice, and with good reason.
At the end of the Roman era, mime actors were performing throughout the empire, but after the triumph of Christianity the theatre of the day was abominated by the Church Fathers as an art so debased as to have lost any relevance to the general good of society.
