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abhorred

/ab-hawr/US // æbˈhɔr //UK // (əbˈhɔː) //

深恶痛绝,憎恶,深恶痛绝的,憎恶的

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ab·horred, ab·hor·ring.

    • : to regard with extreme repugnance or aversion; detest utterly; loathe; abominate.

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Examples

  • We abhor forced labor and support the goals of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.

  • She begins a liaison with single father Adam, who has avoided physical intimacy for a host of reasons, and whose career depends on support from conservative men who abhor women like Seraphina.

  • The big houses were the homes of the Anglo-Irish, the abhorred British ruling class, that dominated the landscape.

  • But unlike his father, who abhorred politics, Baraka has spent most of his life in the political realm.

  • He required others to open doors for him because he so abhorred touching the knobs or other metal objects.

  • So over the years, the saga of James Gatz has been appropriated by the victors into a celebration of the very excess it abhorred.

  • Though the president disliked the KKK and abhorred lynching, he took no effective steps to counter these horrors.

  • Hast thou utterly cast away Juda, or hath thy soul abhorred Sion?

  • He declared therefore that he abhorred the thought of a standing army.

  • It is but simple justice to the poor youth to state that he loathed and abhorred himself in consequence.

  • Her mother sold her at fifteen to young Henri de Marsay, whom she abhorred and who soon deserted her.

  • She knew that he didn't care a rap about the little squat god, but he abhorred untidiness—in other people.