Sentence examples for abominable offences from inspiring English sources

In 1880, a notorious raid on a nearby temperance hall halted "disgraceful proceedings" at which almost 50 men, half of them dressed as women, gathered "for the purpose of inciting one another to commit abominable offences".

The latter statement, while appearing to support sexual freedom, also upholds Jamaican legislation, including the 1864 Offences Against The Person Act, a colonial-era law that prohibits "the abominable crime of buggery" and sets punishment at ten years' imprisonment with hard labor.

The Offences Against Persons Act does not formally ban homosexuality but clause 76 provides for up to 10 years' imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for anyone convicted of the "abominable crime of buggery committed either with mankind or any animal".

Does the establishment have a hand in this abominable crime?

The abominable weather?

Like the abominable snowman.

It's abominable!

Why the Abominable Woman?

This is abominable.

I find that abominable.

THE carnage was abominable.