Sentence examples for abhorred from inspiring English sources

The word "abhorred" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when talking about feeling strong loathing or disgust. For example, "She abhorred the thought of having to do such a tedious task."

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abhorred

verb

Past of abhor

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She not only remembered it clearly, but brought a lump to my throat by apologising for other kids whom she'd abhorred anyway.

He was an apostle of liberty and a champion of authority, but abhorred any abuse of power.

The Iranian government as well as a number of its senior clerics and officials have strongly condemned the Paris attacks that led to the killings of Charlie Hebdo journalists but at the same time have abhorred its publications of many cartoons showing Prophet Muhammad.

There is the wretched oxymoron of the peaceful ideal of the mid-60s counterculture being subverted by the violence it abhorred, as the decades clicked over.

Though he made a fortune from computer magazines, he abhorred gadgets.

Mr Husseini abhorred cruelty: days before his death he appeared on Israeli television lamenting the civilian death toll.

He abhorred mechanical industry, and only by consigning the type to the Thames, he wrote in his diary, could he guarantee it would never be used in "a press pulled otherwise than by the hand and arm of man".Hung out to dryA hundred years later and a few miles across the city, lines of Doves type flash onto the touchscreen of an iPhone.

She was educated at a grammar school, a middle-class institution later abhorred by Labour as "selective", and won a place at Oxford.

"Slaughterhouse-Five", published in 1969 against the backdrop of racial unrest and the Vietnam war, propelled him from science-fiction writer (a label he abhorred) to literary icon.

It all seems designed to prevent any party gaining the dominance that was enjoyed by Pheu Thai, a populist outfit abhorred by Bangkok's coup-backers but which easily won both the general elections it contested.A new constitution may well allow for an unelected prime minister in times of crisis a similar rule kept the army in charge throughout the 1980s.

The elders abhorred Mr Koizumi's calls for painful change ("Reform with no sacred cows") and his attacks upon the party ("Change the LDP, change Japan").

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