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be abominable
adjective
Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.
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It would be abominable to forget.
"My prices will be abominable initially, but they will drop as we scale up.
Trollope was fascinated by those who prospered despite the crash, but worried that the engine of their success was a dishonesty "so rampant and so splendid that … [it] will cease to be abominable".
He was appalled, he wrote later, by "a certain class of dishonesty, dishonesty magnificent in its proportions, and climbing into high places… so rampant and so splendid that there seems to be reason for fearing that men and women will be taught to feel that dishonesty, if it can become splendid, will cease to be abominable".
They found Lim to be "abominable and depraved" in carrying out his schemes.
Most of the myths trace back much further than the 1950s, when the explorer Eric Shipton photographed what he took to be "Abominable Snowman" footprints on Mount Everest.
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THE carnage was abominable.
It's abominable!
This is abominable.
The wine list is abominable.
"The road was abominable," Tingley recalled.
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