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  • Been old enough to drink for many years … too bad I ABHOR alcohol of any kind (be it wine, beer, etc.) 22, 23 in 2 months.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Age Check: It has been a while 2008

  • Like #41, I ABHOR the fact that they think it's okay to just get "another actor."

    Details on How Terrence Howard Lost His Role in Iron Man 2 « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • I HATE, ABHOR, DETEST having to wait till I get to the check-out line and THEN ASK FOR HELP.

    haloaskew Diary Entry haloaskew 2005

  • Combine that with the fact that it's a golf tournament ... a professional PGA golf tournament ... and I absolutely ABHOR golf.

    unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2003

  • I can get one, though I HATE and ABHOR the very thoughts of governess-ship.

    The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

  • If I had to pick a hairstyle that I absolutely ABHOR on women ... it'd be a toss-up between cornrows on a short-haired girl and those goofy balls on either side of the head that Princess Leia or Bjork does.

    unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2001

  • "Do you think I don't ABHOR Lord Coombe!" she cried out forgetting herself in the desperate cruelty of the moment.

    The Head of the House of Coombe Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

  • The Assembly then goes on to state that the slaves are not at present prepared to be free, -- that they tenderly sympathize with the portion of the church and country that has had this evil entailed upon them, where, as they say, "a great and the most virtuous part of the community ABHOR SLAVERY, and wish ITS EXTERMINATION."

    Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. In Two Volumes. Vol. II 1856

  • I have even heard people in my family say that ABHOR the very appearance of this casserole.

    Bucket O' Bulletz Sun T. 2008

  • I wouldn't mind dietary changes, but you can rest assured I would ABHOR Applied Behavioral Analysis, if I knew back then what I know now!

    Autism Hub 2008

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