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Abhorred meaning
simple past and past participle of abhor
Example sentences (20)
The unfortunate thing is that Nigeria has a void database and to worsen matters, the nature of Nigeria, quite unnaturally, has not abhorred this vacuum.
Bolton is extremely hawkish on foreign policy and has generally abhorred negotiating with antagonistic foreign leaders.
Double negatives — commonly defined as a negative statement containing two negative elements — have long been abhorred by grammarians.
If allowed to prevail, Sulom’s stance swerves us towards the precipice of leadership anarchy which the framers of the Statutes abhorred and intended to avoid through the noble tool of inclusive and participatory elections.
I have 25 friends and fellow servicemen who are immortalized on the Vietnam Memorial Wall for defending democracy and the Constitution as written by our founders, even though Mr. Novotny says they abhorred it.
Macintyre sees in these declarations “the essence of Gordievsky’s rebellion”: to discover every possible thing about the regime he abhorred, in order to help topple it faster.
Right-wing opponents abhorred the fact that Kennedy was Catholic, disliked his proposal for Medicare and hated his support for integration.
Fayemi said, “We shall miss this great and amiable leader, who abhorred politics of bitterness.
Ordinarily Tuesday Cabinet day seemed like a normal day for the ruler who had held an iron fist on the country for close to four decades, in as much he had abhorred the voice of the people in the past years he had done the same and ignored the Voice.
Anti-Federalist Americans aligned themselves with the French, abhorred the British, and believed a strong central government to be inherently dangerous to democracy.
Bybee (1997) p. 535. This was partially fueled by the Senators; he wrote in the Northwestern University Law Review : Politics, like nature, abhorred a vacuum, so senators felt the pressure to do something, namely enact laws.
Caesar was not the first to hold it, but following his assassination the term was abhorred in Rome.
He believed that the urgency of this measure was paramount because borrowing more foreign money was no longer prudent, and he abhorred the movement to establish federal taxes.
He claimed to have abhorred Lee Strasberg 's teachings: After I had some success, Lee Strasberg tried to take credit for teaching me how to act. He never taught me anything.
He speaks of a "remarkable body", and in his opinion that the mortal body of Jesus was transformed by God into an ethereal and divine body, Origen approximated the Docetism that he otherwise abhorred.
I loved all mankind, slaveholders not excepted, though I abhorred slavery more than ever.
Montgomery abhorred the lack of coordination, the dispersion of effort and the strategic muddle and opportunism he saw in the Allied effort in Italy and was glad to leave the "dog's breakfast" on 23 December 1943.
Puritan Paulet was chosen by Queen Elizabeth in part because he abhorred Queen Mary's Catholic faith.
She also abhorred his cruelty towards their son and heir Frederick (with whom she was close), although rather than trying to mend the relationship between father and son she frequently spurred Frederick on in his defiance.
Though she employed only women and expresses a profound abhorred of the male gender itself, Darcy had an intense, incestuous love for her brother David.