Sentence examples for an abhorrence from inspiring English sources

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"an abhorrence" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe an intense feeling of disgust, revulsion, or hatred, typically toward a particular thing. For example, "She held an abhorrence for snakes."

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It's an abhorrence.

One is an abhorrence of biographical color.

Ms. Hammond has an abhorrence of the signature style.

Central to those values is an abhorrence of torture".

Lord Faulks QC, who represented the trustees, said they regarded sexual abuse as an "abhorrence".

Thomas More tells his king: "As a humanist I have an abhorrence of war".

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In fact it's more common that a well-meaning elder, often a teacher, has instilled in a child a lifelong abhorrence of verse by drooling over an unfathomable passage from Chaucer – or, worse still, insisting that a pupil "explain" a poem, as if it were a riddle to which an answer should be provided.

"The structural emasculation of Asian men in all forms of media became a self-fulfilling prophecy that produced an actual abhorrence to Asian men in the real world," restaurateur Eddie Huang said of the incident, summing up media's reach and power. .

In fact, there have been grave regressions, including an increasing abhorrence of transparency and public accountability.

He acknowledged that Europeans did not relish insects as food, though he said it was an acquired abhorrence.

It may be that they are racially traumatized people who developed an inherent abhorrence for and willingness to conduct violent jihad against American racial hostility that has torn at their humanity and psychological stability.

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