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as in detestation
something or someone that is hated
one of the changes in American society that remains a particular abhorrence of social conservatives
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as in hatred
a very strong dislike
my firm abhorrence of all forms of hypocrisy
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But enemies of Rustin within the civil-rights movement—among them Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., the Harlem congressman and power broker—were motivated by a genuine abhorrence of gay men.
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Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
Thirteen years apart, the two sisters came to share an abhorrence of the slave system on which their family’s wealth and position depended.
—Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2022
Certainly, not all of his followers will go to Macron, but abhorrence of the extreme right is still a stronger motive for the French left than is abhorrence of the liberal center, strong though that motive is, as well.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022
From Hong Kong to Sudan, Chile to Lebanon, citizens are once more reminding us of the common yearning for honest governance and the universal abhorrence of corruption.
—Joseph R. Biden, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2020
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Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
Thirteen years apart, the two sisters came to share an abhorrence of the slave system on which their family’s wealth and position depended.
—Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2022
Certainly, not all of his followers will go to Macron, but abhorrence of the extreme right is still a stronger motive for the French left than is abhorrence of the liberal center, strong though that motive is, as well.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022
From Hong Kong to Sudan, Chile to Lebanon, citizens are once more reminding us of the common yearning for honest governance and the universal abhorrence of corruption.
—Joseph R. Biden, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2020
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