Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With abhorrence; in an abhorrent manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb With abhorrence.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Telegraph's Sean Rayment, interviewed a British officer who said he believed the US approach to Iraqis was to treat them as "untermenschen", the Nazi term abhorrently used to describe Jews as "subhuman".
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Soldier Taunting Iraqi Children is Hardly the Worst Act 2010
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In the UK, the word is condemnatory of any abhorrently vicious person, but that condemnation, as an action in and of itself, is not judged morally obscene.
Archive 2009-01-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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She described some James-controlled rooms which have since been cleaned as abhorrently dirty and disorganized, randomly stuffed with personal belongings, important Club documents, flea market trinkets and infested with vermin and insects.
Arts Club Hearing Blocked by Court Pia Catton 2011
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I am abhorrently evil and I feed on misery and death This would have made EXCELLENT ammo against the inhuman, barbarian right-wing devils who eat babies.
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In the UK, the word is condemnatory of any abhorrently vicious person, but that condemnation, as an action in and of itself, is not judged morally obscene.
On Profanity: 3 Hal Duncan 2009
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Here we are telling the world how free and democratic we are and yet we go to Africa, kidnap people, and force them to wait on us while treating these people abhorrently.
In health care reform debate, Obama puts focus on affordability 2009
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Well, a witty book abhorrently drank amongst this convincing Maggie.
Planet-x.com.au » Stephanie Alexander bestselling Australia books brisbane australian childrens 2010
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Though Georgia authorities did not file charges against Roethlisberger after the March 5 incident because they did not think they had enough evidence to convict, there was no question according to recently released police reports, that Big Ben behaved abhorrently, if not criminally.
Not the Rooney way Leonard Shapiro 2010
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Derisively fashionable and abhorrently offensive "Hitler" mustaches will be complimented by Cover Girl enhancements.
Charles D. Ellison: Open Letter to Kathleen Parker: You Went There 2010
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Back in the day, people had only one reason to produce offspring: To force them to do the abhorrently awful work no grown person would dare to.
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