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abhorrent

/ab-hawr-uhnt, -hor-/US // æbˈhɔr ənt, -ˈhɒr- //UK // (əbˈhɒrənt) //

可恶的,可憎的,可憎,可恶

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : causing repugnance; detestable; loathsome: an abhorrent deed.
    • : utterly opposed, or contrary, or in conflict: abhorrent to reason.
    • : feeling extreme repugnance or aversion: abhorrent of waste.
    • : remote in character: abhorrent from the principles of law.

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Examples

  • Most of the media coverage and popular debate around Rowling framed her views as abhorrent.

  • I was reminded of that revelation while reading about last week’s abhorrent Capitol Hill riots.

  • His constant and divisive rhetoric led to the abhorrent actions we saw today.

  • The formula for deciding how many electors to assign to each state was especially problematic because it replicated the abhorrent three-fifths compromise used to distribute seats in the House.

  • At a time when many in our community require services to make it through an isolating pandemic, attempting to grant providers a license to discriminate is abhorrent.

  • But one description was abhorrent on a level far above politics: “Aspergery.”

  • To be clear, what Peterson (allegedly) did is abhorrent and almost beyond comprehension.

  • In that interview, Paul made it a point to frequently note how he finds discrimination “abhorrent.”

  • But I have never met someone who actually confronts people for their abhorrent behavior after the workplace bullying is over.

  • Still, the whole thing is so abhorrent that hardly anyone is waiting for the tape to be verified.

  • "I cannot tell you, Fina," said Leam, to whom falsehoods were abhorrent and the truth impossible.

  • But to Bierce's mind, "noble and nude and antique," this mid-Victorian draping and bedecking of "unpleasant truths" was abhorrent.

  • Because it is a law abhorrent to the moral and religious sentiments of a vast majority of the community called upon to enforce it.

  • Yet, in some indescribable way, she reminded him of Nancy, and the notion was so grotesque and abhorrent that he shuddered.

  • But let us do justice to those who shun such abhorrent spectacles, and who cannot endure to look upon an execution.