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The phrase "abhorrent figures" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe individuals or entities that are considered extremely unpleasant or morally repugnant.
Example: "The report highlighted the abhorrent figures involved in the scandal, drawing public outrage and demands for accountability."
Alternatives: "repugnant individuals" or "detestable characters".
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But thinking psychoanalytically, it is also easy to read these abhorrent figures as projections of the pulp consumer's own fantasies.
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In the West, FGM is considered abhorrent, and prominent figures from Hillary Clinton to Angelina Jolie have condemned it.
He described the attempted cash payout as "abhorrent", arguing the seven-figure settlement highlighted that the county "knew the case was worth more money, but they attempted to sweep it away under the rug".
Domestic violence in any form is abhorrent.
Now let's say that others argue that this represents an attempt to introduce and "normalize" an abhorrent and unhelpful practice, to which our public figure responds: "I'm an opponent of civilian rape and murder, and their statements are nothing more than 'name-calling.'"".
Racism in any form has to be abhorrent".
In particular, this meant opening up the carvings with concavities and even with holes pierced right through the forms a practice that the public initially found shocking and abhorrent when the sculpture retained a strong suggestion of the human figure.
Shockingly, that doesn't seem to really be the case, with recent figures estimating that 700 to 2,000 migrants are currently living in abhorrent conditions in and around Calais.
In the 1960s, as his numerous adversaries point out, Baraka studded his poems with abhorrent statements, including the lines "I got the extermination blues, jewboys / I got the hitler syndrome figured" (from "For Tom Postell, Dead Black Poet").
It's abhorrent.
He considers texting "abhorrent".
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