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Discover LudwigThe phrase "abominable example" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an example that is extremely bad or unpleasant, often in a moral or ethical context.
Example: "The report provided an abominable example of how not to treat employees, highlighting the company's neglect of their well-being."
Alternatives: "atrocious example" or "appalling example".
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Conservative lawyers had long warned of perverse consequences: restricting the freedom of British courts; and then – if we're still in the convention – provoking a new rush of cases to Strasbourg; or – if we leave – setting an abominable example to the likes of Russia.
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This pair of abominable examples is just a mere tacit taste for the reader of a hateful movement of brazen bigotry within the Department of Defense.
These were pretty abominable examples of cultural appropriation; the white performers stole slave songs, which popularized African-American culture and music with mainstream audiences, but they played up ignorant stereotypes, portraying blackface characters as dumb, buffoonish, lazy, and superstitious.
When he argues against gay marriage, he often expresses a disgust with homosexuality itself — decrying "abominable behavior between men," for example.
Although a leading expert on the Paris theologians has speculated that Erasmus never seriously undertook the lengthy process of qualifying for a degree in theology, his letters from his early years there do reflect attendance at lectures that he regarded as dull, worthless, and presented in abominable (that is, medieval) Latin (for example, Ep 64, CWE 1 137 138).
His desire for public decorum in the face of what many people reasonably perceive to be an unjust judicial arrogation of legislative and executive powers makes me wonder, for example, whether he would have urged abolitionists to tone down their angry rhetoric when the Supreme Court delivered the abominable Dred Scott decision.
The abominable weather?
I find that abominable.
THE carnage was abominable.
Like the abominable snowman.
It's abominable!
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