"Everyone, including the most abominable of human beings, has a right to life, and capital punishment is therefore unconstitutional," Justice Chaskalson wrote.
The easy answer is the disproportion between the mountainous heights of his reputation and the fragmentary shards of his biography: the tallest mountains produce the most abominable of snowmen, Yetis crowd the slopes of Everest.
In 1940, he called on the grand jury in Greenville to be ready to take action against the Ku Klux Klan, which, he said, represented "the most abominable type of lawlessness".
Lenin said that "every religious idea and every idea of God "is unutterable vileness ... of the most dangerous kind, 'contagion' of the most abominable kind.
One of the Supreme Court's most abominable decisions, rendered in June, was Kelo v. City of New London, which allows governments to condemn private property for the purpose of economic development–in short, it forces homeowners and small businesses to sell their properties for the benefit of private developers.
Now there's a subject for Channel 4 to tackle: a full-frontal portrait of one of the 20th century's most abominable yet unknown figures.
Mr. Harris, while more earnest here than he is as the ego-monster Barney in "How I Met Your Mother," still manages his trick of wrapping the most abominable behavior in the most winsomely appealing package.
Except for a brief trip to Bermuda as part of his application for citizenship, he never left; he never returned to Europe, let alone to Germany, whose crimes, he wrote the chemist Otto Hahn, "are really the most abominable ever to be recorded in the history of the so-called civilized nations".
Catherine Pégard, president of the Palace of Versailles, said she was "scandalised" by those who had defaced a work of art by a great international artist with "the most abominable references".
Dioceses will pay dearly for covering up the most abominable crimes and failing to prevent future offenses.
"Your dress is abominable, most abominable...
