'abhors' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to express a strong feeling of dislike or distaste for something. For example: "She abhors the thought of using animal products for cosmetics."
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Whichever works for you, climate action abhors a cultural vacuum.
At least one right-wing group, Issuikai, which is anti-American and nostalgic for the imperial past, abhors the anti-Korean racism.
He has impressed Mr Dimon, who abhors yes men, by standing his ground when they disagree.
By that definition I am included even though I am an atheist who abhors the sickening criminality and hypocrisy of the Catholic church.
It is ironic that a chancellor who so abhors stop-go in economic management should be presiding over just such a cycle in public spending.
His attacks on his Democratic rival, Andrew Cuomo, have been adjudged too vicious; he has also spewed out anti-gay sentiments, claiming there is a "homosexual agenda", where children are being "brainwashed" into thinking it is alright to be gay or to be taken to a "disgusting" gay pride parade.Yet it turns out that the man who abhors Speedo-clad men used to trouser rent from gay night clubs.
Now he says he will make his decision after consulting his coalition partners, one of whom abhors the idea.
Since then, China has courted Taiwan's politicians albeit the opposition ones and toned down its attacks on its president, even though it abhors his support for the island's independence.
Yet while Saudi Arabia's dour Salafist version of Islam, Wahhabism, shuns political life and abhors democracy, the Salafists Nour Partyy in Egypt has played politics eagerly and effectively, capturing a quarter of the votes in last year's general elections.What links these groups is a belief that Islam has been weakened by centuries of accumulated intellectual baggage.
The moral of the tiger parable is that, though Buddhism abhors even self-inflicted violence, it can be justified if the sacrifice is for the greater good.
