Sample Sentences for
abhor
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    Shall I not then hate them who abhor me?  (source)
    abhor = hate
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    The abhorrence on his cheeks was growing thicker by the moment.  (source)
    abhorrence = disgust (showing)
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    Reptiles are abhorrent because of their cold body, pale color, cartilaginous skeleton, filthy skin, fierce aspect, calculating eye, offensive smell, harsh voice, squalid habitation, and terrible venom;  (source)
    abhorrent = disgusting
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    For, as it was impossible to assign a reason for such distrust and abhorrence, so Mr. Dimmesdale, conscious that the poison of one morbid spot was infecting his heart's entire substance, attributed all his presentiments to no other cause.  (source)
    abhorrence = disgust or hatred
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    When I awoke, I suddenly understood that this propensity for self-destruction was not an abomination, not something to be ashamed of or abhorred; it was our greatest strength.  (source)
    abhorred = disgusted by
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    I do utterly abhor ... it as plain villainy.  (source)
    abhor = hate
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    To eat a human being, even if the person had died naturally, would be abhorrent for him.  (source)
    abhorrent = disgusting and detestable
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    He says that when a species becomes extinct, some other species moves in to fill up the ecological niche, because Nature abhors a vacuum.  (source)
    abhors = hates
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    And would his religious, God-fearing, crime-abhorring mother be more credulous than they?†  (source)
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    I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.  (source)
    abhorrence = disgust
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    And prove the very truth he most abhorred.  (source)
    abhorred = hated
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    I abhor briers, yeller jackets and such.  (source)
    abhor = hate or detest
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    She was one of the few things abhorrent to him that he could touch and therefore hurt.  (source)
    abhorrent = disgusting (hated or detested)
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